After a recent discussion here re: the pro's and con's of using a Celly 1.4
or a PIII 1.1 and which would be faster I have a bit of info I thought I'd
share.

I have an XP2200+ and my g/f has a Barton 2500+. Both run around 1.8GHz
stock but the Barton has twice the L2 cache. (256KB and 512KB respectively)

There is very little difference in WU times between these two machines, both
using the same client.

So from this (albeit very limited) comparison it seems L2 cache doesn't make
a huge difference to WU times. *Unless* any L2 over 256KB doesn't make a big
difference. It could concievably be different between 128 and 256 as in the
Celly/PIII previous discussion.

Just thought I'd mention it. I expected my g/f's PC to do units a lot faster
than mine.

I've just O/Ced her machine to 200FSB for 2.2GHz. 0.1v vcore increase as it
didn't like Prime95 at stock vcore. Just running prime again now but so far
it looks good. 8�C increase in temps under load but that only takes it up to
52� (diode). It should go a bit faster now as my machine was 30 minutes
faster when I ran it at 2.0GHz. Old mobo on mine though, PCI was out of
whack and it corrupted my HDD after a few weeks.
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~misfit~