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Name: Gregpi
Date: April 17, 2002 at 15:46:36 Pacific
Subject: what difference is there?
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Hello everyone!!
How are you doing out there?

1
I'd like to know what difference is there between an ''Intell celeron CPU'' and an ''Intell CPU''?

2
What that means when they say a ''486 computer''?

Thank you in anticipation!


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Response Number 1
Name: 666
Date: April 17, 2002 at 16:23:16 Pacific
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1
An Intel Celeron processor is a cheaper CPU based on the Pentium 2 and 3.
2
a 486 CPU is an old type of CPU made before the pentium series. ranged in speed from 25 - 120 Mhz. Slow and useless these days.


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Response Number 2
Name: mick1950
Date: April 17, 2002 at 16:31:36 Pacific
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I assume you mean the difference between intel celeron, and intel pentium processors.
The difference between the two is the amount of level two cache memory. Celerons normally have half the cache that comparable pentiums do. 486 refers to the class of processor that preceded the pentium class, which is actually a 586. The numbers refer to the number of instructions that are handled per cycle. The 586 (pentium) handles twice the set of instructions as a 486, The 486 twice as many as the 386. This means, for example, that a 586 processor at 75mhz would actually be faster than 486 at 133mhz. Hope this helps you.


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Response Number 3
Name: True or False?
Date: April 18, 2002 at 03:05:56 Pacific
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A person I know who works for Intel told me that Celerons were Pentium chips that were found to have cache defects in quality control. The area containing the defect was disabled and you were left with a Celeron.

Urban legend?


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Response Number 4
Name: D@VE
Date: April 18, 2002 at 11:42:22 Pacific
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I'm too lazy to look for myself. Try searching here


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Response Number 5
Name: Gregpi
Date: April 18, 2002 at 16:59:43 Pacific
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THANKS A LOT!!
YOU'VE REALLY HELP ME
AND I APPRECIATED IT,
MOREOVER IT WAS QUICK.

REALLY I WASN'T EXPECTING SUCH QUICK ANSWERS.


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