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To: paul who wrote (27468)	2/9/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

btw - i have a friend who works at intel and he says folks there dont buy PIII's for their own use - they buy CELERONS - he says there faster in many cases! It will be interesting to see if that remains true now that they have the CuMine out. Celerons were bang-for-the-buck champion because they had superior cache performance that allowed their half-size full-speed cache to perform neck-and-neck with the PIII's half-speed cache, were quasi-free ($90 retail???), and are more tolerant of overclocking than anything else on the market. You see stories of people buying 333Mhz Celerons and clocking them up to 500Mhz., something I would never do. These are often game freaks who also overclock their video cards...they want everything to melt at the same time<g>. But with the Cu's new cache architecture, it may be that the PIII's will be overclockable and you'll read about 1Ghz PIII's before Intel releases them. No doubt about it, the x86 line is great for shooting aliens. DALE: DO NOT GO INTO THE LIGHT. --QS