| In early 1998, Intel was having a hard time with the Pentium II, which
at the time was
expensive. Many users bought the AMD K6-233, which offered very good performance at a
moderate price. Thus, Intel created a brand new CPU called Celeron, which is similar to the
Pentium II but lacks L2 cache as well as the Pentium II shell and uses a new
Covington core. Later in 1998, Intel replaced their Pentium MMX with the Celerons. This
inexpensive Celeron cartridge fits into Slot 1 and it runs at a 66 MHz system bus. The
internal clock runs at 266 or 300 MHz and delivers very good performance for floating
point and MMX heavy programs such as certain games. Concerning office applications, the
lack of L2-cache is a great disadvantage.
Today, the Celeron A and
future Celeron processors are available at higher speeds with more
cache built
right into the core CPU chip. The Celeron A's and future Celeron
processors cache helps to elevate some of the cache
issues that brought the original Celeron some very harsh reviews and
are a good alternative for users who don't mind a slight decrease in
performance and do not plan on playing today's hardware intensive
computer games or other software programs.
Also see: Cache, L2
Cache, Mendocino, Processor definitions
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