Re: TI-H: What should I buy ??

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: What should I buy ??
From: SHIVANJJS@aol.com
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:16:20 EDT
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 8/21/99 3:03:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
gussie@stockly.com writes:

> >> >Ok, that's just not true, Grant - I'm as big a fan of AMD as the next 
guy,
> 
>  >>  >but the fact is that each of them have their uses.  The Celeron's 
cache
>  >(as
>  >>  >you know) is integrated onto the silicon of the processor, and that 
> makes
>  >a
>  >>  >BIG, BIG difference.  A Celeron/400 underperforms a PII/400 by a 
pretty
>  >> slim
>  >>  >margin.
>  >>
>  >>  Try saying that to an eMachine.
>  >>
>  >>  The Celeron is NOT slightly slower, it is much slower.
>  >If you run the celeron at the 100 mhz bus it is very close
>  
>  Do some 1/2/4/8MB fpu/int tests on the Celeron and you'll see what I mean.
When the data set does not fit in the L2 cache of the pII/pIII or celeron the 
celeron performs better, what kinds of games use those "1/2/4/8MB fpu/int 
tests"?
Justin