Well, I think that's more due to the OS. I'm
running an Athlon XP, and
occasionally have to boot into Win2000. As near as I can tell, W2k is no
faster on this box than it was on my old Athlon 600. Linux, OTOH, simply
screams on this thing. Kernel compiles, with dependency checks, module
builds and all, went from 9-11 minutes to less than 4 minutes. A nearly
linear relationship to the increased CPU clockspeed.
Of course, you mentioned the P4, not Athlon. I ran across a benchmark
review yesterday that compared the various P4 chips to the Athlon 1.4
and all the XPs, and the P4 lost its shirt.
Fresh P4 1.4 as shipped from Dell with NT on it. Not that I
think much of Dell's quality anyway, but this machine didn't impress
me at all. The CPU even arrived filthy but still sealed in it's box
and inner bag.
Jeff
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