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To: FR1 who wrote (31670)	8/27/1998 3:07:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 97611

Franz - both chips use the same core. The Celeron-A (mendicino) chip is the one you want, the original celeron had no cache and had some performance limitations. The Pentium II has 512K L2 cache, but it runs at half of the processor clock speed. The Celeron-A has smaller cache (128K I think) but it runs at full clock speed. At the moment P-IIs have higher clock speeds. Some have 'overclocked' the Celeron chips on the assumption that Intel was getting the same speed distribution as on P-II, and some of those attempts turned in spectacular performance. But my recommendation is compare at the rated clock speeds. Celeron-A looks like a pretty good chip in the lower to medium price/performance category and should be excellent for most desktop machines.