Have you ever used a Celeron 1.7? Your assumptions are false for the most part. My Game machine is a Cely 1.7 and it works
beautifully. Along with a TI4200, 1GB of ram, a 7200 RPM drive, it plays any game out there with no problems using 1024x768 @ 32 bit
color.
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you can see why I dont pay much attention to "JK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
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> The Celeron 600 is based on the P3. P3 based Celerons perform much
> better on a clock speed basis than P4 based Celerons, except in a few
> highly optimized SSE2 applications. For most software, a Celeron 1.4 ghz,
> would probably beat a 1.7 ghz Celeron by a large margin.
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> The Celeron 1.4 ghz is interesting, although since it is around the price of
> an Athlon XP1700+, I would much rather have the XP1700+. The P4 based
> Celerons imo look like very bad values. The clock speeds might be high,
> however the performance is much lower than similarly priced Athlon XP
> chips in most applications.
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> > Cheers I^)
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