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To: denni who wrote (89415)	10/4/1999 4:32:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Denni, about your new HP computer: 1) The Celeron shares the same processor core as a Pentium II. The only difference is that while the PII has 512K of off-chip cache running at 1/2 speed, Celeron has 128K of on-die cache running at full speed. Performance of a Celeron 500 is about 90% of a Pentium III 500 MHz. 2) The system uses PC100 SDRAM because it has an 810 Whitney chipset with integrated graphics. The processor bus runs at 66 MHz, but the memory runs at 100 MHz because the integrated graphics can use the extra bandwidth available. 3) Overall, you've got a great computer for the money. The only weakness of your system is the rather weak 3D performance (compared to the latest AGP cards). And your system doesn't have an AGP slot, so you can't really upgrade the graphics. But that doesn't matter if you don't care about your 3D games running at 60 frames per second at high resolutions. Tenchusatsu

To: denni who wrote (89415)	10/4/1999 2:41:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Denni - Re: "does the celeron have a pII core?" The current Celeron has a Pentium II core - 0.25 micron - with on chip 128K L2 cache. The FSB should be "set" at 66 MHz - enabling 66 MHz or 100 MHz SDRAM to be used - unless the PC uses Intel's i810- chip set - in which PC100 memory is required. Re: "the one bummer is that there are no free interrupts for the second ethernet card i plan to add. i guess i have to use comm4's interrupt." I have ssen a bunch of USB-EThernet devices - that plug into the USB port. You may want to look in to these if you are using 10 MBPS Ethernet systems. That may be a way around the interrupt problem. Paul