which is faster? Celeron 433 Mhz. or P2 350 Mhz?

[PremiumG]

I have two chips I can use with this slot one mobo, which one should I use? The celeron doesn't OC very well, like to 445 Mhz maz. Haven't tried OCing the P2 yet.

 

[Jiggz]

I'll say it's the Celeron clock for clock but then te P2 is has a bigger level 1 cache. Personally, I'll go with the Celeron unless the P2 OC's at least 50 mhz more which will make it to 400 Mhz.

 

[snidy1]

The P2 will be faster

 

[Budman]

I think that those PII's had L2 cache off die running at 1/2speed.

I think the Celeron would be a bit faster with it's full speed cache.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Budman
I think that those PII's had L2 cache off die running at 1/2speed.

I think the Celeron would be a bit faster with it's full speed cache.

Of the two chips mentioned, the Celeron would be running on a 66Mhz FSB, while the PII would be running on a 100Mhz FSB. Assuming that the RAM runs at the speed of the CPU FSB as well, then the system would have more performance overall, running the PII chip. Remember, that a PII-300 is roughly equivalent to a Celly 450, for some memory-intensive things. I'd probably run the PII myself, unless that Celly significantly overclocked.

 

[Yanagi]

One more vote for the PII

 

[M16Grenadier]

Both are about equal. I'd use the Cel though, probably a bit faster.

 

[Calin]

One of my ex coleague had a Pentium II 400 (in thier days of glory), and upgraded it to a Celeron 633. He was unhappy as the minimum frame rate in games was lower with the Celeron processor.
I'd go with the Pentium II anyday

Calin

 

[howdyduty]

I believe the P2-400 was the first P2 to run at 100mzh fsb. Since the Celeron 433 is at 66mhz fsb, I could see that a P2-400 would smoke a cely 433. I'd go with the Cely 433 over the P2-350.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Celeron would be faster. As Budman said, the Celeron had a full-speed L2 cache but the P2 had a 4x bigger but half-speed L2 cache.

Because of the cache speed differences the Celeron was a very viable choice and performed very closely to the P2.

 

[dakels]

P2 350 is 100fsb 3.5x multiplier
Celery 433 is 66fsb 6.5 multiplier

generally in some old benchmark reviews the Celeron 433 beats out the P2 350.
http://www.hwupgrade.com/cpu/cpu_june99/index3.html#Business%20Winstone%2099%20-%20Windows%2098

 

[Oreo]

Celeron will be faster. The Celeron 300A-450 was as fast clock for clock as the PII.

 

[gotsmack]

I'd use the cel. It most likely will OC better with a decent heatsink.

 

[CraigRT]

Celeron 433

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
Celeron 433

 

[sharq]

P2

 

[n0cmonkey]

Celeron and overclock it.