On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
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> Anybody got experience with Celeron processors ? I understand that they are
> crippled in some way, but I have no details. They're cheap even at 500 Mhz.
> How crippled could a 500 Mhz machine be ?
They have less cache than their Pentium brothers, and have the pin for SMP
cut. Socket 370 Celerons can still do SMP with a motherboard designed for
it though (I highly recommend the ABit BP-5). The Celeron is
multiplier-locked, but I think the Pentiums are too, so there's no
difference there AFAIK.
For normal use, and even for gaming, most people will notice very little
difference between the two. As I understand it, the cache makes the most
difference for certain types of number-crunching applications. Hopefully
someone will correct me if I'm wrong there...
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Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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