Pentium II 450 faster or Celeron 466?

[frangus]

Wondering which CPU is "faster"?

I need to decide on which CPU is going to be the chosen one for my spare machine.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

PII 450 is going to beat the celeron any day of the week...

 

[AndyHui]

Definitely a Pentium II 450 will beat the Celeron 466 at stock speeds.

 

[anthrax]

not really....Depends how did he/she get 466mhz out of the CPU......if its a FSB overclock to 466....the cerleron could be faster........

 

[fr]

<< not really....Depends how did he/she get 466mhz out of the CPU......if its a FSB overclock to 466....the cerleron could be faster........ >>



Well a Pentium II 450 runs at 100MHz already. 4.5x103MHz is the best a Celeron could do to get close to 466MHz.


PII 450.

 

[anthrax]

does the celeron benifit from full speed 128 KB of full speed L2 while the P2 Stuff was at 1/2 or a 1/3?
but i will agree a stock 466 is slower than a pII 450...

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

PII 450 😀

 

[AndyHui]

All desktop Pentium IIs had half speed cache. There are no other cache speeds...only the Slot A Athlons had to slow down their cache.

The Celerons all have full speed cache.

 

[Nefrodite]

early celerons (466) had 128k cache, 66mhz slow ass bus. p2 had 100mhz bus and 1/2 speed 512k cache which made it pretty fast for somethings. the p2 would eat the celeron most of the time.

 

[Ausm]

<< PII 450 😀 >>



I agree the P2 450


Ausm

 

[Athlon4all]

It would be tight. If a Celeron-A is at 100fsb, then it will usually be a tad ahead of the PII is most apps because it has full-speed on-die L2 Cache while the PII still uses External cache. But, If the Celeron 466 is at 66fsb, then well, it'll be tight but I'd have to give the P2 450 the nod.

 

[Rand]

It's reasonably close, but the old Mendoino Celeron 466MHz usually attained parity with a PII 400MHz.
The PII 450MHz is faster but the difference isnt dramatic.

 

[MadRat]

[GUTB tone]Pllllleaaaaaaaaassssse, keep it real.[/GUTB tone] j/k

Sell the P2-450 for $70-80 and turn around with that money and invest in a Celeron >800MHz! Those 450's seem to be in demand for some odd reason. Hard to believe when so many machines would be better served with a Celeron 1GHz.