Re: Pentium II processor..

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@sefl.satelnet.org>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:

> 
> Your first mistake was buying a Pentium CPU with MMX... if you can, take
> it back and get a Celeron 300a, they're much better CPU's (with less cache
> however). That's just my opinion, i've found Pentium 2's are crap, Pentium
> Pro's are still the top Pentium CPU, and Celeron is the next nicest Intel
> CPU... MMX (in my testing) has resulted in blowing up a CPU (took 4
> minutes to blow up a P2 400 (i was using it as a server cpu)).
> Bottom line: If you can, take it back, and get a Celeron 300a or splurge
> and get a Pentium Pro 200, other than that, I really can't tell you how to
> fix your problem but my guess would be the MMX shit. P2's aren't really
> built for unices (from what I've heard).
> 

Hunh?  Blow up a CPU?  What the hell are you talking about?

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