From: John P . Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Mon 04 Oct 1999 - 14:28:32 IST
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:18:53AM +0100, Dave Airlie mentioned:
> Is it worth the couple of hundred quid or so to get a PIII-600 over the
> 500 or 550?
Nope. I'd be skeptical if it's worth the extra few quid to go for
PentiumIII over Celeron. Since www.overclockers.co.uk are selling 366Mhz
celerons gauranteed to run at 550Mhz/100Mhz bus for #79 (sterling/ex vat).
Celerons are certainly faster at games with main loops of less than 128K,
seeing as the L2 cache runs at core speed, unlike the PII/PIII which runs
at half core speed.
Kate
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