[WEB4LIB] Pentium II or Celeron or ...

[jay]

Olga:

Please understand this: the power of the CPU is only part of the performance
equation. You should buy a fast hard drive also (this is in rpms). A fast
drive and enough memory for your various apps (generally the more the merrier)
will greatly facilitate the strain on a CPU. So, it's an integrated process.

Regards,

Jay H. Frantz,
Webmaster,
Corpus Christi Public Libraries


Olga Verbeek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are a III library getting ready to move up to their Millennium
> products. III's advice for their circ. and serial modules is a PC with a
> Pentium II (133 MHZ or better >300 MHz) chip and 64 Mbytes of main memory.
> Instead of the Pentium II, how about the Celeron chip or some other chip
> on the market. Usually they are more reasonably priced than the Pentium
> II. Both the Pentium and the Celeron use the P6 architecture. Mostly I
> guess I am after performance, which combinations give "equal" performance?
> where are the trade-offs? etc.
>
> Anyone have any comments or advice?
>
> --Olga
>
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