From: A Kumar (lists_at_akumar.org)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 12:23:10 EDT
Let's just get our facts strait, because everyone seems confused.
> Ok , Kids .
> Around 400 MHz the MOBILE Celeron went to a 100Mhz FSB.
> Around 400 -450Mhz the MOBILE Celeron became a P3 with half the cache.
> AKA coppermine 128.
> The difference in performance between a Mobile P2 and Mobile P3 is
very
> little.
True, the difference in speed is negligible, even for games.
> The P3 should never have been called the P3, but that is another
story .
> ;-}
>
> Yes, the MOBILE Celeron is somewhat slower .
> At this frequency (500Mhz ) , for most of the people ..most of the
time...
> it doesn't matter...AT ALL.
> Amount of memory , operating system, and how much crap you have loaded
> will
> have a MUCH bigger impact on System performance.
>
Again true, your money is better spent on ram then cpu upgrades any day.
>
> >P3 cache is 8 way set associative but celemines are only 4 way...
> > this does tend to impact performance alot
>
> Wrong , irrelevant and wrong .
> ;-}
Actually the p3 cache is 8 way set associative vs 4 way for the Celeron.
But the speed difference because of this is negligible. We are talking
a couple of percent performance increase. Even the most hardcore gamer
wouldn't notice if some random site didn't make some pretty graphs for
them to look at. Not that a notebook is any good for games anyway.
Stupid hardcore gamers(sorry to offend any gamers but people who spend
$200 on a water cooling their processors for like slight increase in Mhz
are just plain the stupid. You're not going to notice that .5fps
increase in Quake!!!!!!!! Flame away I don't care your not going to
change my opinion.).
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