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Answer» For browsing the internet, on a motherboard with a 133 MHz front side bus, what processor do you think would be better ?
Celeron SL5VR....100 MHz FSB, 256 KB L2 cache, 1.3 Ghz
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Pentium 3 SL52Q....133 MHz FSB, 256 kb L2 cache, 933 MHzNumber #2...It seems like that's the better choice but I'm not SURE...
Not to go on a technical rampage or anything, but I read somewhere that because of the L1 and L2 cache, the processor will only look to main DRAM approximately "1%" of the entire session (cache "hits" make up the 99 % and cache "misses" make up the 1 %, when the system has to SLOW down to the FSB speed and main DRAM is accessed). So, that 133 Mhz front side makes a difference only a small amount of the time.. In the case of these TWO processors, the L1/L2 cache are running at the full speed of the processors and do not have to slow down to the front side bus speed unless a "miss" occurs.. So as far as I can the celeron would be better...
Then again, were talking about browsing the Internet, and the processor cannot predict what web pages you are going to go to, so that data couldn't possibly be in cache. It could however, predict what processes/services are needed for browsing and leave those in cache. Perhaps multi-tasking on the computer with out browsing is where the celeron would be better because it would know better what you are using and would wouldn't have to go to memory as much...
The reason I'm comparing the two is because I have to put one of the two into a system like I described. I'm thinking of going with the celeron, but I just want to get some insights from people..The difference is going to be very very tiny and I doubt if you would even notice it. Having said that, you may as well use the P3. I'd use the Celeron, but as Salmon said there's not going to be a world of difference.interesting responses Does seem like there will not be much of a difference, doesn't it..
thx for feed back
I think I'm going to go with the Celeron, for now...
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