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Subject: Re: Is there much difference between Celeron & AMD, using it for chess?

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 13:27:51 06/22/02

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On June 22, 2002 at 15:37:40, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Yes, there is.
>The Celeron works with 100Mhz SDRAM and has only 128kb L2 cache.
>The Athlon works with 266Mhz DDRAM and has 256kb L2 cache and more L1 cache (I
>think it is 64k) than the Celeron.
>For chess is faster.
>For other games it is also faster particularly for DirectX games.
>
>You should also ask what are the future upgrades options for each system.
>
>Best regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso

Celeron 1200 and higher have 256 KB L2 cache, they use the Tualatin core.

Ernst,



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