Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 18:21:49 08/20/99
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On August 20, 1999 at 15:37:51, David L. Wyatt wrote: >On August 20, 1999 at 14:42:54, Bo Persson wrote: > >>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 > >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 -------------- Hi Dave, But don't this cut the life expectancy down quite a bit which would be determined by how much faster you overclocked it? Regards, Terry
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