Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:52:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:52:05 -0400 Received: from as4-1-7.has.s.bonet.se ([217.215.31.238]:387 "EHLO k-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:51:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3BC2039C.2020402@stesmi.com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:50:52 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: landley@trommello.org CC: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sis630/celeron perf sucks? In-Reply-To: <20011006130647.B26223@work.bitmover.com> <01100618241801.05593@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, > All the celerons I know about have a 66 mhz front side bus speed. (Actually > there was a notebook version with a 100mhz fsb, but no desktop ones I know > of.) It's a totally artificial limitation to get you to buy a real Pentium > III. Intel crippling its low-end to avoid hurting the high end. (They let > AMD do that for them. :) Actually the latest celerons are 100MHz FSB. // Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/