The major difference would be FSB, while fastest Celeron runs at 100mhz, and
P3 runs at 133mhz. That's why Intel didn't want to release 100mhz FSB
desktop Celeron (it will hurt P3 sale) until AMD pushed a lot of P3 and
especially Celeron "out of market". Please also keep in mind that most
Celeron systems run RAM speed at 66 or 100mhz, even you have PC133 RAM.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal Trachtenberg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Intel Celeron vs Intel PIII


> > I personally have found that the PIII processes information requests
> faster
> > than the Celeron.  Heavy duty users will notice the difference in
> > performance while others may not.
> >
> > Steve Beck
>
> It makes sense that the P-III will process faster than a Celeron, the L2
> cache of the P-III is 2 or 4 times bigger than the Celeron, (depending on
> the MHz of the P-III that you have as some have 256Mb L2 and some use
512),
> so calculations are much faster.

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