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To: Valueman who wrote (109662)	5/7/2000 7:30:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 1576851

Nice closing sentence on that Celeron review. Low-end users should definitely keep a sharp eye out next month for AMD's Duron processors, which offer just about everything the Athlon has, but also offers on-die cache and a sleek new Socket-A format, not to mention a very nice price tag. Straight from left field. Might as well have just written "don't buy these suckers, much better from AMD coming soon". The new Celerons should do as well as those first cacheless slot1 266 Celerons Intel tried to sell. (Well, actually maybe not, because the lack of cache meant they did at least overclock reasonably well.) What I don't understand is why the new Celerons do quite so badly in most benchmarks. Even the nobbled cache should compensate reasonably well for the slower FSB and yet the Cumine 500 can match a Culeron 750?