Hi Tom -
What Derek said. The other downside to the Celeron is that it's
front-side memory bus logic tops out at 66 Mhz. Generally this is not
a big deal. Until recently the Celeron and Xeon were the only chips
in the model line that ran an L2 cache at the same speed as the
processor. The Celeron did a 128k cache, the Xeon did 512k, 1024k and
2048k. The current (Coppermine) PentiumIII chips have caught up to
the ability to run the cache at full speed, albeit with a smaller
(256k) L2 cache size than the old (Katmai) PIII's at 512k. Some of
the current PIII chips can also run with a 133 Mhz FSB. So while the
gap between Celeron and Katmai was modest, the gap between the Celeron
and Coppermine can be significant depending where you buy into the
Coppermine product line.
For my own boxes I'm still using dual 200 Mhz PPro and misc AMD
K6/K6-2 gear. Linux runs great at 133 Mhz. We never had a VAX that
fast and we timeshared 40 developers on VT100's ;-).
ccb
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