Which is faster?

[Locoz]

I'm looking for the fasted socket 370 chip I can buy...

* INTEL Pentium III 1AG 256K CPU TUALATIN FCPGA2 Retail $130 -or-
* Intel Celeron (Pentium III based) 1.3GHz 256K L2 Cache FCPGA2 Retail $78

Or is there a faster socket 370 chip than these?

I would assume the higher clocked Celeron is faster, but clock speed is not always the primary factor when comparing chips, and you know what happens when you assume.

Thanks!
Derek

 

[RemyCanad]

I would say that the Tualatin is faster. Try to look up some benchmarks..

 

[Acanthus]

clock for clock the celeron is slower than a pentium III, the pentium III at that speed should be very close in performance to the celeron. If you plan on overclocking though, the Pentium III is definitly the way to go.

 

[zephyrprime]

But wait a sec, if the celeron is of a higher clock and has the same L2, it must be faster! It's got a 1.3 ghz clock speed so it must also be a 0.13 like the Tualatin. Why I'd guess that the celeron is using a tualatin core.

Oh wait, I see from the intel site that the celeron only uses a 100mhz bus compared to the p3's 133. And I also see that there's a P3 with 512K l2 cache. So that makes things a lot harder to judge. I say go with the celeron because it's so much cheaper and it can't be much slower (might even be faster) than the P3 with 256k L2.