swaaye wrote:Tetrium wrote:The cache on those Celerons is actually 128K 😉
OMG you are right. I don't know how I mixed it up with Duron. I been shamed! Will punish myself later! Will reinstall Vista on a Willamette P4 or something!!!
Lol! No need Lol! It's not like I'm never wrong! 😜 😜 😜
I think the early Celerons are basically just as good as P2's.
Even though the later Deschutes has 100Mhz fsb support, imo this matters little for the P2's (but ofcourse, if anyone has a different opinion, please do share!! 😉 ).
The Duron's are pretty good, but there isn't any real reason to pick a Duron over an Athlon (unless it's for SSE or something?).
What I really like about the Coppermines/Tualatins is their much more conservative heat production compared to the Thunderbirds (= early S-A Athlons).
You know, I've always wondered something a little bit:
I know the Duron has 64KB L2, the Athlon (XP) has 256KB and the Barton has 512KB.
I know it's possible to cut/open some bridges so you can enable extra cache on some of the crippled Bartons (the Thortons I think they were called).
BUT...it would also be possible to get a Thoroughbred, and halve it's cache, turning it into some frankenchip, a 128KB L2 "superduron" 😜
Except for retro honor and glory, it would have no point of course...but it's still just...lingering in my head LoL!