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Article #658Re: Pentium III or K7 Athlon?
From: clagman
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:00
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In article <JLIs1GAWKcx3Ewth@dbqa.demon.co.uk>,
Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <CV8s0DASsax3EwMr@urban75.demon.co.uk>, ms
> <mike@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
> >
> >In article <935662921snz129.os2.7@sunshine.tm>, Richard Ashton
> ><{R}@sunshine.tm> wrote
> [snip]
> >>The Celerons are much cheaper and just as fast.
> >
> >But not so hot for intensive Photoshop/graphics/video stuff or
working
> >with loads of applications open, apparently.
>
> I do video editing and even with complex effects, the CPU processes
> faster than the SCSI disk can deliver.
>
> TB
Sounds like you need more RAM and a faster SCSI. The real weak point in
the Celerons is the SMP systems lose processing to overhead. The larger
cache makes for much better SMP computing.
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