Question about performance comparisons between new and old PIII cores / celeron

[moosey]

I have a PIII 1ghz cD0 on a CUSL2-C Mobo. If I were to get a TUSL2-C with support for the Tualatin and new Celerons, what wold give me a performance boost but not cost a whole lot of money? Would a new celeron do the trick or would it have to be a tualatin? How much of a boost would your suggestion give? Thanks

 

[Tates]

I just repalced my Asus CUSL2-C and P3 1Ghz with an Asus TUSL2-C and a Celeron 1.0a. The best I was able to oc my P3 1Ghz was 1125mhz. On my new set up I am running the Tualatin Celeron 1.0a at 1450mhz, rock solid. My 3dMark2001SE scores (Radeon 8500) went from 6770 to 8290. I can cruise through games at 1600x1200 with all the candy turned on. I am very pleased with the results. 😀

 

[moosey]

are all the intel processors with the "A" tualatin? is that how you can tell when you're buying it?

 

[techwanabe]

Yes, the A denotes Tualatin processors... another indicator is the cache listed in the specs... the Cumines are 128kb and the Tualatins are 256mb.

 

[Witchfinder]

The safest way to get a Tualatin is to buy a 1200 as there is no CuMine 1200 Celly, also the price difference is minimal -

There WAS a CuMine with the A, but it was the 533A to differentiate it from the Mendocino version..

I would imagine that a Tu-Celeron would have similar performance to a Cu-PIII though I haven`t tested this theory

 

[rogue1979]

Just get the Celeron 1.0a from TCW, I believe is is under $65 shipped. As long as it has 256K it is a Tualatin. They have data prefetch and overclock easily to 1400MHz, and are faster than a Coppermine P3 clock for clock.

 

[barryng]

I agree that an excellent buy is the 1.2 Gig Tualatin. I have one running on an Abit ST6. It easily reaches 1.5 Gig (125 MHz FSB) and runs SETI 24/7 at this speed.

 

[Cruze8]

can the celerons with the tulatin core work in a fcpga mobo... cuz if they do I'm hooked... where can you get ahold of em?