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To: Senator949 who wrote (31432)8/22/1998 9:03:00 AM
From: divvie   of 97611
 
K6 Vs. Celeron
With a PII core you get a far superior FPU (Floating Point Unit) . Much better for grpahics and math. Ziff Davis tests have shown that, without any L2 cache whatsoever the initial Celerons were little better than a 233 PII. However, these tests primarily test the suitability to MS Office types of pgms. E.g. Excel which pages in and out of main and L2 memory all the time. 256k of L2 is the minimum required according to the same tests but SRAM is expensive so INTC are making do with 128k. Not good. BUT, you do get a very cheap PII class FPU, which, without the L2 cache (266) is very easy to overclock to up to 400MHz with no ill effects. So you get the cheapest but best 3D CPU out there until K6 with 3DNow.
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