On 14 Dec 98 at 19:44, Brent Reynolds wrote:

> A Celleron CPU?  Yep, you made a mistake.  You got a chip that
> performs worse than Intel's regular Pentium 233 with no cache, or
> less cache, and a worse math unit than a regular Pentium II that
> wouldn't have cost you much if any more.

  The main difference between the Celeron 300 and 300a is that the
300a has onboard L2 cache.  Not as much as a PII does, but on
the same wafer as the CPU and clocked at the speed of the CPU -- PII
has cache on separate chips at half CPU speed.

> You would have done far better to have bought the even cheaper
> AMD K6 CPU in a clock speed equal to or faster than 300MHz.  Lose
> that Celleron and get a real CPU.

  Substantial numbers of people report that, when installed on a
board with adjustable CPU voltage, they can get about 450 MHz out of
most 300As, for less price than the K6-2/300; I believe the poster
expressed an intention to try this himself.

> Check out all the PC magazines from about March of 1998 and later
> to see all the nasty things they have to saya about the Celleron.

  The 300A wasn't released until about September.

David G

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