[aclug-L] Re: Celeron vs. PII?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The original Celerons had no onboard cache, which made them much slower than
a Pentium II.  Now days the differences between Celeron and pII/pIII are
not as great.  Pentium II will still generally be faster than Celeron
"overall," but it depends a lot on what you'll be using the system for as to
which type of chip will be better.

If you're building a gaming system, I'd recommend a Celeron, as the speed
improvement with a pII/pIII won't be nearly as noticable in games... and you
can OC the Celeron a lot more than you can a Pentium II/III.

I would suggest also looking at the AMD K6-2 or K6-III (K6-III being the
better of the two).  I have a 450Mhz K6-III and as I recall it cost about
the same amount as a Celeron 450 at the time I got it--maybe $10 more or so,
and it has about twice the on-board cache as a Pentium II (more, I think,
even than a Pentium III).  The downside of the K6 series of chips is that
they're not quite as fast at FPU--that's more true with the K6-2 than the
K6-III, too, if I'm remembering what I've read. :-)



On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:26:24AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> I've been away from hardware just long enough so some of these things
> have passed me by.  Anyway, I'm wanting to throw together a system
> this winter, but am a bit unsure of the practical difference between
> the Celeron and Pentium II processors, except for about $100.  I
> assume both are 32 bit chips and both support the same amount of RAM
> on board, etc.  Is there a major performance issue?  So any particulars 
> would be appreciated.
> 
> On a related note.  I'm looking at main boards without such things
> as integrated video and audio considering such features would be
> less supported in the kernel and X (ie propretary/Win only interfaces).
> Also, I'm looking at models that include an AGP slot, which I assume 
> is the current rage for video adapters much like VESA Local Bus was 
> 5 or 6 years ago.
> 
> Any thoughts/experiences on this stuff would be appreciated as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Nate >>
> 
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