Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 03:20:29 07/06/99
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The Celeron and the Pentium II are almost the same CPU. The coreof the CPU is the same the only real differences are: 1 - bus speed: 100 MHz for PII and 66 MHz for Celeron 2 - cache size: 512k for PII and 128k for celeron 3 - cache speed: = 1/2 clock for PII and = clock for Celeron the factors 1 and 2 favor PIIs while the factor 3 favors the Celeron so the real performances are almost the same for most of the apps. A slight advantage is felt mainlyfor the PII on floating-point operations, while operations on integers are essentially on pair, so is for chess progrmas. Why at the WC they did use PII or PIII? Because they come with slightly higher clocks and they can work in parallel! If you want the best bang/bucks the celeron is the answer now. On my celeron@400 Junior 5 reaches easly 250 Knodes. regards Franz
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