Celeron Math processor question

[toph99]

someone told me it had half of the math processor, is this right? as far as i knew, the celeron was a PIII with half the L2 cache, 4 way associative L2 instead of the PIII's 8 way, and it ran on a 66mhz bus instead of 100 or 133

thanks

 

[office boy]

Your friend is wrong, you are right.

 

[toph99]

thankyou

 

[IaPuP]

The new celerons are actually EXACTLY the same as a PIII with the SMP circuitry and half the L2 cache physically BURNED out of the CPU.

They do it for economic reasons- They've determined it would be cheaper to do this- I guess because of the bin curves of the coppermine core. If they didn't, they would be trashing lots of 500-650mhz cores that would otherwise be saturating the PIII market.

Eric

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

funny, i seem to remember an article by Anand saying thet the new celerons where a different production run, and not coppermine cpu's with half the l2 cache disabled/burned/manipulated?