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

Author: David L. Wyatt

Date: 12:37:51 08/20/99

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On August 20, 1999 at 14:42:54, Bo Persson wrote:

>On August 20, 1999 at 11:15:46, Mike CastaƱuela 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

If you like to consider such things, you might also note that Celeron chips
nearly always are able to be overclocked with no loss of stability. This varies
from chip to chip, but I've never seen a Celeron that didn't overclock at least
a bit. (I run my 433 at 488mhz, and I've known people who were able to run the
Celeron 300A at 450mhz!)

Regards,
Dave



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