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Article #322Re: AMD K6-2 or Celeron?
From: Tony Millington
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00
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In article <01aiesk7oq7trpukvnspiqha9o765qum8r@pink.semolina.org>, {R}
<{R}@soggy.semolina.org> writes
>On Mon, 03 Apr 00 20:32:15 GMT, siberia@nospam.demon.co.uk (Claire) wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>}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. And as to other
>}comparators, there seem to be as many difft ways of measuring
>}performance as pins on the chips :(
>
>AFAIK all Celerons will work at 100Mhz Bus speed, certainly the 300 and 466
>do.
>
>{R}
If you go for a P3 slot-type motherboard you could go for
a Celeron now (fits with an adapter), and put a P3 in later on.
A Celeron 400 system was a _huge_ advance from a 66MHz 486.
Hope this helps
--
Tony
Ooh, Gromit - it's Real Wensleydale! [Wallace]
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