Pro-intel people just keep hammering on MHz.
It doesn't matter !!!! The K6-2 beats higher-clocked pII's with ease.
I would rather buy a pentium pro 200 than a pII233. Even intel has many cpu's with the same clock speed, but with total different performance numbers. A 100 MHz DX-4 486 and a p100, a 200 Mhz p5, and a 200 MHz Ppro, a 233 MMX and a pII233. Intel them selves are quite familiar with same clock speeds and *very* different performance.
So why shouln't amd be in the same boat ? a Celeron 300 just is no competion to a K-6-2 300, and for the following reasons :
2d, Desktop publishing, graphics, and Windows performance of a K6-2 is MANY times faster than anything the castrated Celeron is able to show.
The lack of cache just is a big BIG problem for the Celeron concerning standard programs. The only segment where Intel promotes the Celeron on, is GAMING. ("3d"). "Combine it with a state of the art 3d-accelerator card, and it will be at almost pII performance" -thats an often heard and seen sentence - But since AMD has 3d-now, the last pro of the Celeron is rendered useless. Amd beats the Celeron on every aspect, whilst also offering superior upgradebelity. When you buy *anything* from intel nowadays, you know for sure that the motherboard and it's socket will be out of date the next month. Maybe intel changed the color, the smell or something else of uppermost importance, just to guarentee that they will have "new" products to sell to the customers.
Hope to have informed you well :
Michael da Kota, from Holland with Love; |
