Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:25:36 03/20/00
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On March 20, 2000 at 11:57:38, Laurence Chen wrote: >On March 20, 2000 at 09:25:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On March 20, 2000 at 08:02:55, Laurence Chen wrote: >> >>>On March 20, 2000 at 00:52:37, Georg Langrath wrote: >>> >>>>in Aufsess Tournament, Germany many of the programs use Celeron processors. Is >>>>celeron processors as good as Pentium for chessprograms? >>>> >>>>Georg >>>Celeron's have a FSB of 66 MHz and on-die cache built-in of 128K, a Pentium 3, >>>the Katmai type, has a FSB of 100 MHz and a L2 cache of 512K. A celeron is a >>>cheaper version of a Pentium 2, not a Pentium 3. If you were to run all chips >> >>True. >> >>>in the same clock speed of 66 MHz, the Pentium 2 is much faster than a Pentium 3 >>>at that clock speed. However, this is not true for the new Pentium 3 Coppermine >> >>False. The PII and Katmai are virtually identical. One is not much faster than >>the other. >I said at 66 MHZ not at 100 MHz. At 100 MHz, a Pentium 3 is slightly faster than >a P2. Also because Katmai is .25 micron, it generates a lot of heat, and it is >not very easy to overclock such a chip by using heatsink and fan combo alone. What difference does the FSB make? I don't think it makes any difference. And I don't think Katmai is faster than the PII unless you are using an "SSE enabled" program. Celerons are also 0.25 micron. Why do you think Celerons are so great to overclock and not Katmai? It's the same process. -Tom
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