Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 06:25:04 03/20/00
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On March 20, 2000 at 08:02:55, Laurence Chen wrote: >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 True. >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 False. The PII and Katmai are virtually identical. One is not much faster than the other. >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. Somewhat true. The on-die cache in the CuMine is much better than the on-die cache in the Celeron. >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. False. The PII and Katmai, being virtually identical, overclock equally poorly. The Celeron and the CuMine overclock well because they do not have external cache chips that must also be overclocked. -Tom
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