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[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.  And as to other
comparators, there seem to be as many difft ways of measuring
performance as pins on the chips :(

I am not interested in playing games with this PC: I want to run
it it as a dual-boot NT4/Linux system, to be used primarily for
web-site creation, email, and some humungous Perl jobs.  So the
last tweak of graphics performance is not my priority, and 3D
graphics isn't really a concern at all -- speed in processing
lots of data is the main thing (at the moment, running linklint
on my 150Mb website takes 40 minutes on my 486, which is a bit
tedious ...) 

Can anyone help me make up my mind?  Or should I just spend the
extra 50 quid or so on a P3?

Thanks!

Claire

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