"ComputerDoctor" <davekimble@austarnet.com.au> wrote in message
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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,

Hey man, I like the Cellys (except the P4 version). They overclock like hell
and are good value for money, for Intel. I wouldn't buy a Celeron machine
these days though when you can get an Athlon XP for about the same money
that will walk all over the Celeron.

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?

Check in the BIOS to see if the L2 cache is enabled. If it isn't that would
ceratinly account for your SETI times. Also try downloading and installing
Aida32, the best system tool by far, and have a look at what it says.
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~misfit~