Over a year ago there was considerable discussion about comparisons of the
FPU capabilties of the Pentium vs the Celeron. Now we have the Duron and AMD
K6-2. At the time, there was much speculation that the AMD K6-2 would be a
contender against the Pentium in terms of the FPU and on-chip cache.
I'm writing to ask whether now that the K6-2 has gone from the drawing board
to reality whether it lives up to the hype that was discussed at the time
over what the K6-2 was expected to be.
I'm considering purchase of a system and am looking for pentium performance,
not celeron or lesser FPU capability... I use a lot of math crunching
(fractals, spreadsheets, database, no gaming..)
Thanks....
Paul
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">Over a year ago there was considerable discussion about comparisons of the
<BR>FPU capabilties of the Pentium vs the Celeron. Now we have the Duron and AMD
<BR>K6-2. At the time, there was much speculation that the AMD K6-2 would be a
<BR>contender against the Pentium in terms of the FPU and on-chip cache.
<BR>
<BR>I'm writing to ask whether now that the K6-2 has gone from the drawing board
<BR>to reality whether it lives up to the hype that was discussed at the time
<BR>over what the K6-2 was expected to be.
<BR>
<BR>I'm considering purchase of a system and am looking for pentium performance,
<BR>not celeron or lesser FPU capability... I use a lot of math crunching
<BR>(fractals, spreadsheets, database, no gaming..)