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In article <954793935snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
           m{$0004}$cl$@siberia.demon.co.uk "Claire" writes:

>[x-posted to uk.comp.homebuilt,demon.tech.pc]
>
>I suspect this is an FAQ, but after checking tons of websites
>I can't find any way of deciding whether I'm better off
>building my new system with an AMD K6-2/500 or a Celeron 466
>
>(I know that the forthcoming AMD Spitfire looks good, but it
>won't be available for a while and I need a new system sooner
>than that)
>
>As far as I can see, the Celeron's 66MHz bus should make it
>slower in memory-intensive jobs than the AMD's 100MHz, but some
>things I've read suggest that the AMD isn't very efficient at
>memory access, so the Celeron comes out better.

The K6's are lumbered with the Socket 7 bus which is slow. Memory
rates can be well under half that of a Socket 370/Slot 1 system even
with the same meory chips. That's why SS7 motherboards need L2/L3 cache.

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