[OT] Hardware Info Help

[Net Llama!]

Also worth noting is that there are Xeons out there with 1MB cache (i
think 2MB as well, but i'm not 100% sure).

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Federico Voges wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Well, Intel is doing something similar too. The new Celerons (1.7Ghz
> and up, all socket 478) are P4 with 128kb L2 cache (as Lonni said). But
> the max freq available now is 2.2GHz when you have a 3.06GHz P4s.
> They'll keep the Celerons waaaay behind the P4.
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> BTW, There are P4 (as well as PIIIs) with 512kb L2 cache.
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> On 08 Jan 2003 13:20:32 -0800, Aaron Grewell wrote:
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> >The original Celeron had no L2 cache at all.  Its performance was so
> >abysmal that Intel had to quickly come out with the Celeron "A" which
> >includes the 128KB L2 cache we know today.  K-6-II and III chips
> >definitely gave better bang for the buck than the original Celerons, but
> >the Celeron A was the last nail in K6's coffin and led to the
> >introduction of the Duron, AMD's low-cache processor.  The Duron not
> >only whupped up on any Celeron ever made, it ate into Athlon sales as
> >well, which is why it is going the way of the dodo.  For this next round
> >it looks like AMD will use 32-bit chips against Celeron and 64-bit
> >against P4, being more careful to keep the clock speeds differentiated
> >this time.  We'll see how well that works.
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:22, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> >> And at that isn't it something like double the cache of the original Celeron?
> >>
> >> Of course it's worth noting that whether they suck or not just about all
> >> current processors are i686 (Pentium Pro).  I think the AMD K6 series was
> >> the last i586 put in many PCs, and though they would often outperform the
> >> early Celerons, they wouldn't run software compiled for i686 while the
> >> Celerons would.
> >>
> >> At 03:01 PM 1/8/03 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> >Its also worth nothing that Celerons have a 128KB cache, while the
> >> >'normal' PIII & PIV chips have a 256KB cache.

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