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Given equal speed (mHz) the only practical difference between a Celeron and A a "Pentium III" is the size of the on board cache, the Celeron's being smaller, and therefore the Celeron's performance for some tasks is less than the full PIII's. For routine stuff you can't tell the difference.
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Name: Ellis Date: July 21, 2001 at 09:04:15 Pacific
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Yep - however the speed of the celeron cache is the same as the CPU - P III's on the other hand, access the cache at half that speed. Which in theory compensates for the lack of available cache on them.
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Response Number 3
Name: astroraptor Date: July 21, 2001 at 09:34:57 Pacific
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If you want REAL power get an AMD K7 Athlon
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Response Number 4
Name: Paladin Date: July 21, 2001 at 09:43:01 Pacific
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The PIII Coppermine (600mhz and up) have full speed cace. The Katmai (non-Cumine) have 512k cache onboard at half processor speed. The Cumine have 256k at full processor speed. The PIII's are superior to the Celeron. PIII's are also more compatible with hardware and software than AMD Athlons. (Now brace yourself for typical Athlon enthusiasts heh)
But in conversations with other techs in real life... They are fast and great for gaming (if you manage to get compatible stuff) but so are PIII's and with fewer hassles.
But as mentioned for typical users doing routine functions/gaming it would be extrememly difficult to notice any difference without running benchmarks. If my system runs quickly and provides excellent performance in games, then I don't care about benchmarks.
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Response Number 5
Name: Ellis Date: July 21, 2001 at 10:12:04 Pacific
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Yeah, thats right the coppermines do run at full core speed. Sorry -
thanks all, i expected a one-word response that just said either 'pentium' or 'celeron' so thanks for all the info, you answered my question........tez
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