🚀 go-pugleaf

alright, i'll admit it. I AM WRONG. at least andrew gave an explanation as
to what my problem was. by God, the truth is the new celerons are ABSOLUTELY
FINE for video games. please don't question my ethics. this post  was made
with all good intentions. and after all, isn't this a perfect example of
what this newsgroup is for: TO EDUCATE PEOPLE LIKE ME. THANK YOU  Andrew for
having a cooler head than me and helping resolve my ignorance re: celerons
and also helping other people save some $$$$. PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY. i am
now trying to crawl out of my hole. tin horn


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<aep@nospam writeme.com> wrote in message
news:d3n9bso7bc3sdudqpbptt9batdfmj11qqq@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 05:27:36 GMT, "Tin Horn" <lvt2000@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> >ok. you guys can talk "lab test" "benchmarks" et al all you want. look at
> >the box h-l comes in. oh, it says pentium on system requirements. why do
you
> >think it says that? do you know why a celeron is cheaper than a pentium?
> >because it lacks certain precessing instructions that's why. my intent is
to
> >save people money by not wasting their $$$$$$$ on a celeron and then,
being
> >totally dissatisfied, have to shell out more $$$$ for a pentium to get
the
> >REQUIRED POWER AND ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS needed to run the game. you
> >people are the ones making newbies waste their $$$$$.     NEWBIES, IF YOU
> >CAN AFFORD IT, GET A PENTIUM, IF NOT, WAIT, BUT DON'T GET SCREWED LIKE I
DID
> >BY HAVING TO GIVE INTEL MY $$$$$ TWICE. PEACE OUT, tin horn
> >
> You really are intent on making a fool of yourself aren't you. FYI, by
> HL stating it needs a Pentium, it actually means a Pentium class
> processor, which includes Celerons.
>
> The Celeron has the SAME Medicino core as the Pentium II - it is NOT
> missing any instructions. The difference with Celerons and P2's is the
> cache memory. The first Celerons didn't have any - probably what you
> had - and weren't that good for games. But soon after that the A
> series came out which had 128K of cache. That is half of the amount of
> cache that a P2 has, but it runs at full processor speed, as opposed
> to the P2 which runs at half speed. The net effect of this is that the
> Celeron runs real applications, including games at the same speed as a
> P2.
>
> No grow up and learn that when you are in a deep deep hole - STOP
> DIGGING!
>
> Andrew.