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Claire wrote:
> 
> As far as I can see, the Celeron's 66MHz bus should make it
> slower in memory-intensive jobs than the AMD's 100MHz, but some
> things I've read suggest that the AMD isn't very efficient at
> memory access, so the Celeron comes out better.  And as to other
> comparators, there seem to be as many difft ways of measuring
> performance as pins on the chips :(
> 
> I am not interested in playing games with this PC: I want to run
> it it as a dual-boot NT4/Linux system

Both of those systems are SMP-aware.

If CPU throughput is your goal, have you looked at an Abit BP6
(dual Skt-370) board, with two Skt370 celerons?

Celerons are generally quite overclockable, so you may be able
to escape the 66Mhz limit that way, however, that's potentially
dangerous.

> speed in processing
> lots of data is the main thing (at the moment, running linklint
> on my 150Mb website takes 40 minutes on my 486, which is a bit
> tedious ...)

You won't see a major benefit with two CPU's if you aren't
doing more than one thing at once, or doing one thing with
SMP-aware software.  However, at the price (81.00 for the
BP6 last time I looked) it's worth considering.

Jim