Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:58:52 07/05/00
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On July 01, 2000 at 15:39:19, Dan Andersson wrote: >The PIII is faster than an athlon for crafty, I think thats correct. But if one >overclocks an intel processor there will be almost no performance boosts ie a >800 mhz PIII will get less than 1% boost from the first 5% clockspeed increase >and then steadily less than that per next 5% percent. A new athlon (not athlon >classic) will get a near linear increase for a high overclocking percentage. And >the athlon and duron are now as easy to overclock as intel processors. Both the PIII and new Athlon have similar amounts of on-die L2 cache. So there's no reason why one would scale better than the other. The main thing to consider when overclocking is that the PIII has very little headroom, whereas many of the new Athlons can be clocked at >= 1 GHz. -Tom
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