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Subject: Re: Celeron

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 06:10:14 03/20/00

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I don't know whether the following is true or not, but I have
a PIII/450 machine running next to a Celeron 466 at work, and
as far as I can tell the Celeron is a bit faster .. I have
run a couple chess programs on these on off-hours and
confirmed that the Celeron has a small edge. So I agree
about Celeron being a very good value. But if you really
want performance, get an Athlon.

--Jon

On March 20, 2000 at 06:55:26, Graham Laight wrote:

>I have read that Celerons are made on the same production line as Pentium 3
>processors.
>
>To turn a PIII into a Celeron, apparently they just disable 128K of the 256K
>on-board cache.
>
>If this is true, Celerons represent very good value for money, PIIIs represent
>very poor value for money, and Intel's marketing dept deserve praise for selling
>Pentium IIIs at such a high price!
>
>-g



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