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To: divvie who wrote (63518)	8/28/1998 5:44:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Now Mendicino (Code name for 300MHz Celeron) has 128k of L2 cache. This is good but tests show that 256k is the mimimum for meaningful improvements, as common instructions and data in business apps are prolly just less than 256k but bigger than 128k (I'm guessing on that last point, but not on the minimum cahce size). The benchmarks at Tom's Hardware seem to show that 128k of full-speed cache works as well as 512k of half-speed cache. (From memory) The benchmarks use Winstone98 for office application emulation, Quake 2 for game testing and some rendering package for 3-D graphics rendering. Also Mendicino is becomimg like PII! what's the point? I'm not sure that there will be a reason to buy PII at the same clock speed of Mendicino if the 128k of L2 is really enough. Mendicino could be the best value CPU out there. Even DELL is using it. Latest PII's (Xeon I think) now have L2 cache running at CPU speed so the high end gets better but more expensive to produce. I agree with this last point. I've just ordered a BX-based MB (Asus P2B) and a Celeron-300-A that I intend to attempt to overclock to 450 by setting the FSB to 100. If it isn't stable at that speed and I have to run it at at 300 then I'll still have a system that'll kick my current P-133 non-MMX's butt plus have an easy upgrade route to the 133 FSB Katmai when it's released (P2B clockable from 66 to 133). I paid $180 for the processor. I probably could have gotten it for less but I was ordering several things from the same company and it was cheaper shipping-wise just to throw it in with the other items.