Celerons may be old and Athlons new, but my point was that the
Celeron floating-point arithmetic performance compares quite favorably
to the K7/500.
Faster by a factor of 4, in fact. Plus it's cheaper. Plus I got dual
CPUs and can run SMP. Plus I can overclock via BIOS, not having to
tweak surface-mount components.
With such an unequivocal difference, what difference does it make if
its "old"? At that speed, it's (almost) OK if it used vacuum tubes!
Well, not quite ... :-)
* "jh" == Jason Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jh: Just another tidbit-
jh: Celerons are old. Athlons are new. There is a reason price falls with
jh: time...
jh: Also-
jh: The K7 500 mhz usually is a 650mhz chip. So you can overclock it to 650
jh: mhz for about 70$ more (or less if you are good with a soldering iron).
jh: Honestly.... new technology == high prices, but it will come down in price
jh: remarkably fast. In fact, I saw athlon 500's for 179; the board is
jh: 100-150, so already they have dropped quite a bit.
jh: jason
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