mobile celerons > desktop celerons?

[daveymark]

I just found out the mobile celerons have 256k of L2 cache. Desktop cellys only have 128k. Does this mean celerons aren't so bad anymore?

 

[BlvdKing]

Any mobile celeron above 2.0 GHz has 256K L2 cache. I am guessing they did this because going out to system memory more often requires more power than retrieving information from cache, thus shorting battery life. There is also an increase in performance.

Since the mobile Celeron has 256K L2, I would guess that it has similar performance to a Willamette, which also had 256K L2 cache.

 

[DJMiX]

DO mobibe celerons have the same pinout as socket 370 celerons?

 

[BlvdKing]

Nope. The mobile 2.0 Ghz and above are usually socket 478.

 

[MadRat]

I thought they used mPGA.

 

[BlvdKing]

You may be right. I can only find mobile celerons in s478 up to 1.8 GHz.

 

[Jon187]

Mobile celerons in the skt 478 variety start at 1.5 and go all the way to at least 2.6. They all have the 256k l2 cache.