Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw


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Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw




>Orginally, the celeron had no l2 cache, but that didn't last long, and any
>celeron above 300 Mhz has 128KB of full speed l2 cache.  It makes up for
>its 4 times smaller cache by being full speed instead of half speed, and
>will hang with a PII of the same clock in almost anything, except maybe
>audocad.  Oh, and they are a lot cheaper.
>http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/weekly_cpu/ has the most recent
>prices.  $53 for a Celeron 300A(with 128K l2 cache), and $35 for a k6-2
>350.  Cheapest PII is $153 for the PII-350.

WOW!  Seriously, can someone tell me where I can buy a processor (socket
7?) for about 266MHz?  A k6-x?

I'm thinking about using that instead of the SHARC DSP since they are soo
cheap.

I looked at marshall and they had some but they were well over $100.


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