Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 05:02:55 03/20/00
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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 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 chip. It uses the same on-die cache as the Celeron, however it has 256K of Cache, and it is much faster than a Pentium 3,Katmai, in the same FSB. The reason why people buy celeron is OVERCLOCKING, it is very easy to overclock a Celeron to a much higher speed than the specs, also Pentium 2, and Coppermine are much easier to overclock than a Pentium 3, Katmai. Laurence
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