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Subject: Re: Technical Help: which are pros-cons of Celeron

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 11:42:54 08/20/99

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On August 20, 1999 at 11:15:46, Mike Castañuela wrote:

>Hi all,
>I,m planning purchase (being computer-chess one of its uses)
>a new PC of about 400-450 MHz; which are the pros/cons of Celeron
>relative to Pentium II, to same clock speed?
>I have listened something about difference in cache, but
>that precisely it should expect I as main differences?
>(my question is because Celeron is cheaper)
>
>Thanks

The cons of the Celeron is that it is not quite as fast at the same clock speed.
The pros is that you can easily afford a higher clock speed. :-)

A Celeron 500 is cheaper than a PII 400, but *much* faster for almost any
program.


Bo Persson
bop@malmo.mail.telia.com

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