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Re: AMD K6-2 or Celeron?

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From: Tony Millington
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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From: Tony Millington <tony@millington.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 or Celeron?
Date: 2000/04/04
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