Author: Bo Persson
Date: 04:32:56 08/21/99
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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 The 300A was an exception, where Intel used an artficially low marking to avoid competition with the Pentium II line. Some (many!) of the chips could very well have been sold as 400 or 450 MHz units, if Intel had only wanted to. Bo Persson bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
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