6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
3:10 a.m.
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 05:31:47PM -0000, Cory
Smelosky wrote:
[...]
I'm going to agree here. One of my favorite chips of the last number of
years is the tualatin core PIII-S. I have a Dual 1.4 Ghz PIII HP server,
11-12 years old at this point, as my primary personal server. I'd
replace it, but it's been ROCK SOLID since I picked it out the scrap room
at work in 2007. I rocked the tualatin PIII desktops for waaaaay to long. The
processors there were never the problem, I think I blew through 2 or 3
mainboards during that time period.
At the time I generally found the PII and early PIII chips to be
uninspired and a waste of money. It always like they should have felt
faster than they did. I stuck with my 200 Mhz PI Desktop for a really long
time, until the socket 370 PIII's came out.
Now, if you want to talk about a processor not to trust, anything based on
Intel's NetBurst architecture...
--
Jason
Sent from my DEC 3000
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).
That's a *fascinating* line to draw. The PIII is a minor tweak to the PII
design and nothing revolutionary that could affect reliability. Way back when I
was using such systems instead of tossing them into the skip, the PII and PIII
cartridges were pretty much interchangable.
I've certainly had some systems over the years which I was never entirely happy
about, but that was me trying to save too much money and cutting corners. When
I've felt flush and bought good quality components, I've ended up with rock
solid hardware.
Of course, any working PII system I might find is going to also be reliable,
but only because the unreliable ones have stopped working and been thrown away
in the 15 years since they were made.