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[DCB_AU]

OK, just for interest -

Is there much of a improvement over a PII 400MHZ CPU, compared to a PIII 450MHZ CPU. (apart from the 50MHZ difference).



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[Spitfire_x86]

If you use encoding/rendering apps. that have SSE support, then you'll get some improvement.

In other apps, the improvement is not noticable.

P3 450 MHz = PII-400 + extra 50 MHz + SSE

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[DCB_AU]

OK, one other question -

Much of a difference in performance between a Celeron 400 CPU and a PII 400 CPU?

Thank's,

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[Crashman]

Celeron 400 is nearly as fast as the PII 400, because even with it's slower bus speed and 1/4 the cache, the cache runs at full die speed instead of 1/2 die speed.

In fact a Celeron 300A at 450MHz (via overclocking) is faster than a PIII 450.

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[pauldh]

Ah, the good old days.

I had a couple 300a's running 464MHz on retail heatsink/fan. And at $100 or so compared to almost $1000 for the PII450 when it was king. That's when overclocking made the most difference. Same performance for 1/10th the price. And a 266 running 412MHz before that. I have fond memories of those BX chipsets and those early celerons.

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[Crashman]

And not to forget, with the full speed cache, a simple increase in bus speed to par with the PIII 450 put the Celeron as the performance LEADER at 1/10 the cost!

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sh¡t?

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[darko21]

I think it was this simple yet powerful overclock that made TGH so well known. Simply put electrical tape or whatever over pin b21 or b29 (I forget which) use a bx board with pc100 sdram and whallah 50% overclock.. best trick I ever got from TGH. I still got a friend using that setup under win98.

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