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To: Petz who wrote (46669)	1/19/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 1573130

John, Try this Link for info: zdnet.com (If the link dosn't work, just plug in celeron 400 & hit search on the main zdnet screen) The conclusion: You may hear the term socket 370 used in conjunction with the PGA processors: That's because they plug into the motherboard via a 370-pin connection. This type of packaging is slightly cheaper to produce, so prices are a bit lower that those of the SEPP chips. In quantities of 1,000, Intel's pricing is $143 each for the 366-MHz and $183 for the 400-MHz socket 370 chips, compared with $151 and $191, respectively, for SEPP chips. How Much Faster? If you're thinking that these new processors won't give you a huge performance boost over the 333-MHz Celeron (until now, the fastest Celeron available), you're right. On our ZD Business Winstone 99 tests, the 400-MHz Celerons posted scores that were 13 percent higher than 333-MHz Celerons, on the average. By comparison, the 400-MHz Celerons' scores were 20 percent lower than the 400-MHz Pentium II average from our December 1, 1998, roundup ("The Best PC"). You can expect the performance of Celeron/366 PCs to be about 6 percent better than that of Celeron/333 PCs. But the interesting performance story comes when you compare the 400-MHz Celeron with AMD's new 400-MHz K6-2 processor with 3DNow! Technology. We saw a Compaq Presario 5190 Internet PC, the first system on the market with this flavor of K6-2 (see the sidebar "Compaq's Presario Brings Home the 400-MHz AMD K6-2"). Given that the 5190's graphics and disk subsystems were less capable than those of the Celerons we tested, we weren't surprised by its 19 percent-lower Winstone test score. What did take us by surprise was the 5190's CPU score: 16 percent higher than the Celeron/400 average. We suspect that in this case, size does matter: The 400-MHz K6-2 has 512K of L2 cache--four times that of the Celeron. It doesn't run at full processor speed, however. ======================================= I would think that 16% better performence would rate an inprovement on the celeron's $193.00 price tag. tgptndr