Re: dual processors

[Robert Speed <nospam [at] Viclabs.co.uk>]

>
> On general principle, I would have to say avoid a Celeron if you can
> afford it. They have no L2 cache.
>

Pardon ?

I hate to mention it - but anything with a (genuine) clock speed > 300
Mhz has 128K of L2 cache. In the slot 1 format, anything with an A
suffix also has 128K. EVERY single socket 370 also has 128K.

On each of these, the cache is clocked at the same as the processor
(as opposed to half speed on the PII). This does infact speed up
certain functions (Excel type stuff) and returns a better throughput
than a PII. Graphics rendering (and anything that really eats memory)
is slower though.

Rob S.
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