On 23 Jul 98 at 15:44, Postmaster wrote:

> ... what I wanted to know was did the motherboards have L2 cache
> onboard them or do the chips just run completely without L2?

  Celeron fits in Slot 1; Slot 1 boards don't provide L2, that's left
up to the processor package.  So "completely without L2" is correct
for all current Celerons.

> How much cache do they have if they do?

  Intel claims that the .25 micron process will allow them to produce
a Celeron CPU and L2 cache on a single chip, possibly before
year-end.  Current P2s have several chips inside the package, so this
will reduce costs.  But you can't yet buy a Celeron with L2.

> And if they don't, how do they perform compared to the P5233?

  It's going to depend on the process load, but I figure a Celeron
needs to be spotted 66-100 MHz to compensate for the lack of L2.  I
haven't personally benchmarked one; the last system I even considered
it for, I went with a PII-300 instead.

David G