What will fold faster, P3-450 or Celeron 500?

[nikhsub1]

What will fold faster, P3-450 or Celeron 500? Well? What do you think?

[new_novice]

i'd say the CEL

[gtsimmo]

The cel might because of the extra 50 mhz plus the full speed of the L2 cache. Also i think it overclocks better

[JetMech]

Originally posted by nikhsub1
What will fold faster, P3-450 or Celeron 500? Well? What do you think? Back in the day it was found that a Celey 300A oc'd to 450 was very close to a PII 450. This was due to the fact that the 300A's 128K L2 cache ran at full FSB while the PII 450's 512K L2 cache ran a fraction of that. The PIII 450 however has it's L2 running at full system bus so I would guess that it would be the better folder.:beer: :burn:

[gtsimmo]

i think only the coppermine P3's L2 run at full CPU speed. And the regular Slot 1 pent 3's run at half speed.

[Tweaked!]

My celly 500 isn't doing too bad... O/c'ed to 600, can't get no more out of it because of the rest of the components in that rig.
It was a p// 266 in a 440lx mobo, now with a celly500 and socket 370 to slot adapter. Does the p3 450 have the 512k or 256k? Does that really matter? I'm pretty sure the celly is the 256k, right?

[gtsimmo]

i think the cel's are only 128kb (full speed), with pent 3 coppermines at 256 kb (full speed), and the first generation pent 3 at 512 kb (Half Speed). I remember those cause the L2 is not built into the CPU and instead was on the PCB that the CPU was built into.

Edit: I have a slot 1 pent3 and a socket 370 pent 4 so im certain about those. The celeron i use to have i sold but i think they were 128kb

[Jon]

Not so sure about this...my PII 400 beats the pants off my Celly 466.

[gtsimmo]

Oh by the way Jon Happy 29th Birthday

[muddocktor]

The slowest coppermine P3 is a 500 FCPGA so your P3 450 is definitely a Katmai .25 micron process cpu, and the most realistic speed you will be able to get out of it will probably be around 600 mhz max, due to the off-die cache speed and core design. The celery 500 is also built on a .25 micron process, which will most probably limit you to around a max of 600 mhz also. The celery does have 128k of on-die cache running at full speed, so I imagine that it would be a tossup on which one to use. You will probably have more luck oc'ing the P3 because most mobo's will have a 1/4 pci multiplier that will kick in around 124 mhz, if it's a board that allows fsb speed selection.

[Jon]

Originally posted by gtsimmo
Oh by the way Jon Happy 29th Birthday

Thanks! :D