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Celeron 1000A@1333MHz vs PIII 1200MHz

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First post, by appiah4

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My next project will likely be replacing my Slot-1 P3 setup with a Socket 370 Tualatin, and for that I will be using a GA-6OXT motherboard (I decided I do not need an ISA slot for this DX7/8 + A3D build). The question is, do I go with a Celeron 1000A and overclock it to 133MHz, or do I go with a PIII (not PIII-S) 1200MHz? Common sense tells me the overclocked Celeron should be faster, but is there something I'm missing here?

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Reply 1 of 3, by VooDooMan

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Why not some PIII-S? Your motherboard supports all tualatin CPUs I think.

From those two CPUs you mentioned, Celeron 1000A at 133 FSB will be faster.

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Reply 2 of 3, by appiah4

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VooDooMan wrote:

Why not some PIII-S? Your motherboard supports all tualatin CPUs I think.

From those two CPUs you mentioned, Celeron 1000A at 133 FSB will be faster.

They are, along with a Celeron 1300, all I have unfortunately.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Standard Def Steve

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That's a tough one. The Celeron has an extra 133MHz of core speed, but the P3 has data prefetch enabled and a lower latency L2 cache. You could probably call it a tie!

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