Dave Cinege writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > Bryan Burlingame writes:
> > > The new Celerons (300A and 333) have 128K of L2 cache clocked at the
> > > processor speed (ala Xeon) compared to the PII's that have 512K of L2 cache
> > > clocked at 1/2 the processor speed.
> >
> > But that doesn't answer my question. Dave was comparing a Celeron 300A
> > with a PII with "full speed cache". AFAIK a PII with full speed cache
> > is a Xeon. I'm not aware of a non-Xeon PII with full speed cache. I
> > wanted to make sure I knew exactly what Dave meant.
>
> What I meant is the newer PII's (>=333MHz) run their cache at full speed.
>
> Looking over some things I think I'm mistakin though, and was confusing this
> with the extended memory caching of the 'server' model PII's..
OK, that clears it up. IIRC the older PIIs had L2 at bus speed (either
66 MHz or 100 MHz depending on your system). The newer PIIs have L2 at
half CPU core speed. A definate improvement considering the higher and
higher core speeds we're seeing (450 MHz last time I looked).
Regards,
Richard....
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