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Originally posted by geekysteve:
While I'm an AMD-man myself, I can offer this info to you:
Pentium II
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The Slot1 350, 400 and 450MHz PII's are 100MHz FSB with 32K L1 cache and 512K L2 cache running at half-processor speed.
The BallGridArray 300, 333, 366, and 400MHz PII's are 66MHz FSB with 32K L1 cache and 256K L2 cache running at full-processor speed.
90% of the PII's use a .25micron core. Slot1's consume around 27watts, BGA's consume about half that power.
Celeron (466MHz and higher)
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They all feature .18micron core and consume around 18watts (+/- 4watts).
They all feature 32K L1 cache and 128K full-processor speed cache.
The 500, 550, 600, 650, and 700MHz Celeron's are available in 100MHz FSB (in BGA/PGA configuration).
The 500, 533, 566, 600, 633, 667 and 700MHz Celeron's are available in 66MHz FSB (in Socket 370 configuration).
Pricing
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I've found Celeron's from $75 - $105 (retail box) and Pentium II's from $75 to $120 (retail box).
It's really a toss-up; the performance is so close on these 'as is'. The Celeron's are known for their overclockability, but they all suffer the same L2 cache bottleneck.
Conversely, you can get a nice AMD Duron 700 for $85 and blow away all of the Intel offerings in that price range (and PIII's as well).
Ummm, none of the P II's have full speed L2 cache and also Celerons do NOT come in 100mhz FSB. Even the new Celeron II's only have 66mhz FSB. The new Celeron II's DO have on-die full speed L2 cahse, though.