🚀 go-pugleaf

Dear Martin;

I'm not trying to be facetious, but your statement that "The only
performance boost of the 512K Xeon over the P-II is in running the
L2 at core speed" is like saying the only performance boost between a
Volkswagen beetle and a Viper is Horsepower.  I'm not trying to get you
fired up, I know your trying to help someone else which is a good thing.  I
just felt you would appreciate the update on the Ppro & Xeon.  There is no
comparison between Ppro's & Xeon vs. the PII.

As far as the overdrive is concerned, your getting mixed up between the Ppro
and a PII.  They are totally different CPU's.  A Ppro is socket 8 a PII is a
slot 1.  The only comparable PII to a Ppro 200/256 would be the PII-400/450.
That assumes your running true 32 bit software like NT, Linux, OS2, Unix,
etc.  If your just running DOS, WIN95 or WIN 98 out of the box, then the
performance difference drops greatly.

I hope you don't take this corrective critisim the wron way ......If so I
apologize.

Good Luck,

Dennis, WI

Martin Payne wrote in message <795b44$fpu$1@plug.news.pipex.net>...
>I have no experience of the Pro CPU, but there is a PPro overdrive, which
is
>a 333 MHz P-II if I remember correctly.
>
>The reason that this is of interest, is that the PPro Overdrive runs the L2
>cache at core speed (i.e. 333MHz), whereas the standard P-II 333 runs the
L2
>at 333/2 (ie. 167.5MHz).
>
>The only performance boost of the 512K Xeon over the P-II is in running the
>L2 at core speed, and the Celeron 'A' (with 1/4 the cache size but at full
>core speed) does very well in benchmarks against the standard P-II.
>
>The PPro overdrive runs at 5x on a 66MHz bus, and I have read magazine
>comments that it can be a good performance option in boards which won't
>allow the 100MHz bus.
>
>I have no idea how expensive they are, though.
>
>Martin
>
>
>R Loveridge wrote in message <36B455DE.1E6B7BD2@iname.com>...
>>Currently running a PPro200/256 on a riser board on a Tyan Tahoe II
>>1682D motherboard.
>>Primary OpSys is Win NT4, though I occasionally boot to Win98 and Win95.
>>Would I realize any significant increased performance results by
>>upgrading to a Pentium II 333/MMX?
>>How about upgrading to dual PII333/MMX's?
>>
>>Looking for an interim upgrade before buying a new 100mhz MoBo and
>>processor.
>
>