5 Jun
2013
5 Jun
'13
12:32 p.m.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 1:31 PM, "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
My PII was made around the time as my Netra t1 105.
Both are still 100% functional. I don't like any PeeCee hardware that is Pentium III
or later. It's just absolutely unrealiable garbage! I just /do not/ trust it. If I
don't check it for a month I want my systems to not throw any crazy errors. Only my
Pre-PIII systems I trust to not give errors in that time period (this is only talking
about PeeCee hardware).
The PIII isn't really much more than a PII with SSE. Later iterations,
of course, had various improvements, but they were fairly interchangeable.
I've found that the socketed PIII *servers* are pretty reliable; I have
a decent dual PIII on a ServerWorks chipset running as a secondary DNS
and disk imaging server in the basement, and I have had no problems with
it whatsoever. It even has 66 MHz 64-bit PCI, which works just fine with
big, wide 133 MHz PCI-X cards at half their rated speed. Nice beast.
I do think, however, that the PIII era was when building your own machine
was really beginning to become popular, and as a result, the manufacturing
quality of boards in the consumer sector began to suffer. The high-end
server boards fared somewhat better, IMO.
- Dave