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Celeron slow
Name: compudude Date: September 13, 2003 at 16:53:02 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Professional CPU/Ram: Intel Celeron 566 Mhz/256
Comment:
I have a HP Pavilion Celeron 566 Mhz processor with 256 MB RAM, 15 GB HD and Windows 2000 Professional. It's very slow and clunky, is there anything I can do to make this crap get any faster?
Name: Titan Date: September 13, 2003 at 17:20:40 Pacific
Reply:
installed windows98SE with DMA enabled
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Response Number 2
Name: C_Legend Date: September 13, 2003 at 19:33:20 Pacific
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First, what OS are you running? What forum is this? Ok. Anyway, your heading says it all - "Celeron slow" - a tiny amount of L2 cache or none at all. I agree with Titan that Windows 98 will likely run faster on this system than Windows 2000. If you want to run W2k, put it on another computer, preferably a Pentium III or IV, or an Athlon/Athlon XP. Good luck.
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Response Number 3
Name: Frank Date: September 14, 2003 at 07:30:49 Pacific
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Hi, As I was told, intel, to make the chip less expensive, uses less cache in the chip. I have a 1gig amd athlon and a 1.8gig celeron, the athlon is much faster than the celeron. Also, I was told, this is not a fair comparison because the amd chip is their top line and the celeron is their second line. htayq frank
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