Re: Pentium vs Celeron

From: Tim Slattery (Slattery_T_at_bls.gov)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:11:52 -0400

"cquirke (MVP Win9x)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote:

>1) 512k half-speed L2 cache, 66MHz base
>2) 512k half-speed L2 cache, 100MHz base
>3) zero L2 cache, 66MHz base
>4) 512k half-speed L2 cache, 100MHz base, SIMD
>5) 128k full-speed L2 cache, 66MHz base
>6) 256k full-speed L2 cache, 100MHz base, SIMD
>7) 128k full-speed L2 cache, 100MHz base, SIMD
>8) 256k full-speed L2 cache, 133MHz base, SIMD
>9) 256k full-speed L2 cache, 400MHz base, SIMD
>A) 128k full-speed L2 cache, 400MHz base, SIMD
>B) 512k full-speed L2 cache, 400MHz base, SIMD
>C) 512k full-speed L2 cache, 533MHz base, SIMD
>D) 512k full-speed L2 cache, 800MHz base, SIMD, HT

This is good stuff, but can you translate the acronyms? HT would be
hyperthreading, I guess, but what's SIMD? And is "base" the front side
bus speed? 

-- 
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov

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