I have a old comp with a pentium 2 ( 750 mhz) and another comp with celeron ( 1000 mhz).

When downloading a distro, how do I know which architecture to pick?

Thanks in advance?

Both CPUs are 32 bit x86 processors, capable of the i686 instruction set. So everything from i386 to i686 will work on that machine.

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thx, performance-wise, are the higher numbers better or the lower numbers better?

If you have a choice among the numbers within one distribution, higher numbers are better. But within one distribution you probably don't have that choice.

Those numbers, especially lower ones (i386 or i486) , aren't consistently used across distributions, so you can't estimate the relative performance across distributions by comparing those numbers.

Where the numbers represent a comparable difference, higher number is better as long as it is compatible with your CPU. But don't read too much meaning into comparing those numbers.

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Pentium 2 is ONLY from 233-450Mhz-

http://www.intel.com/design/PentiumI...+2+overview%29

http://www.intel.com/support/process.../CS-025303.htm

750MHz has to be a Pentium 3.