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Subject: Re: celeron A 450 vs pentium ll 450

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:40:22 01/17/99

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On January 16, 1999 at 18:31:18, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>I recently built a new computer with 128megs ram and the celeron 300A processor
>(great buy at £60)which i have successfully overclocked to 450 MHz.It has been
>running stable at this speed (I ran F5 and CM5000 simultaneously, continuously
>overnight for last 3 nights to test the stability of the overclocked chip.) I
>got the following values for fritz mark and junior mark:

Depends upon the program you run. Small programs fit in the 300A already
big programs don't.

For DIEP a celeron 300A at 450Mhz performs like a PII at 266Mhz.
An alpha 633Mhz 21164 (using gnu-c compiler) performs like a PII at 360Mhz.

Both i blame slow or small L2 cache size.





>FRITZ MARK short   316  KN/sec=392 (16 Mb hash tables)
>
>FRITZ MARK long    291  KN/sec=434 (96Mb hash tables)
>
>JUNIOR MARK short  307  KN/sec=381 (20 mb hash tables)
>
>JUNIOR MARK long   332  Kn/sec 373 (96mb hash tables)  I wonder how these values
>compare with a genuine pentium ll 450 or 400 MHz or even a top of the line AMD
>K6? would the extra 512 kb of cache running at 1/2 speed out perform 128 kb
>running at full speed? I wonder if people with such systems could let me know?
>even perhaps a comparison could be made between Cel A vs pentium ll vs AMD for
>different programmes. Interestingly CM5000 calculates 25-28000 posn with every
>blink.I'll try to boost this chip to 500mhz and if it runs stable I'll post
>figures at this speed as well.
>
>Rajen Gupta



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