| Subject: Re: Another Is this time ok? |
| From: "ComputerDoctor" <davekimble@austarnet.com.au> |
| Date: 10/11/2003, 22:42 |
Misfit wrote
Such a shame that Intel destroyed the Celly line. Coppermine Cellys were
good, Tualatin Cellys were excellent. Hell, even the Mendicinos were OK.
I guess you serious number-crunchers can afford to look down on the pathetic
Celeron, but as I said before, Task Manager says SETI is getting 99% of the
CPU time, averaged over a day. This means that the Celeron is approximately
10 times more powerful than what I need for my work. For example,
downloading at 56kbps uses about 3%, and playing music at 160kbps another
3%, WORD doesn't even register after I've been tapping away for hours.
Who needs all that extra power?
My mobo drivers CD includes a utility that serves up the same kind of info
as Sandra, but it reports that the maximum L2 cache is 128K and the
installed L2 is *zero*. Does this mean the cache has died? How can one
tell for sure?