OT: PIII vs Celeron

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:14:13PM -0400, John Moniz wrote:
> I'm putting together a linux machine for my son to fiddle with. I have a 
> P3 800MHz and a Celeron 1000 CPU that I can use. Any opinions on which 
> is the better CPU?

I would actually think the P3 is.  The celeron 1000 is probably based on
the P4 design, which means clock for clock it is a lot slower than the
P3, and also celerons had less cache in general, so I would think in all
ways the celeron 1000 is below the P3 800.

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Len Sorensen
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