On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:40:41PM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bradford Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > 1) Does anyone know the preformance of a 266 Celeron, VS a 266 MMX P1 vs a
> > 266 P2
>
> Hmm, unfortunately no - the GIMPS comparison page doesn't have any Celeron
> stuff on it yet. I'm sure there must be benchmarks *somewhere* on the 'net,
> though.
There are some benchmarks on www.specbench.org, submitted by Intel
themselves. I can summarize to the list if people think that would be
useful.
Quick summary is that I don't see any reason at all to buy a regular
Pentium II, unless you're absolutely CPU-bound (and in that case, what
are you doing on x86?). The Celeron's price/performance at 333 and
400 MHz just blows the PII out of the water.
> > 2) I am buying a new PC, does the Celeron hurt preformance so badly to not
> > be effective?
As long as you make sure you get a 300A or faster, the performance
impact is negligible. The 300 (no A) and slower Celeron have no L2
cache, and thus have significantly slower performance.
-andy
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