> > The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed > > that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful > > for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software.
> IIRC, the 2nd level cache of the Pentium III is running at the same speed as > the CPU, wheras the 2nd level cache of Pentium II's is running at half the > CPU speed. No, the PIII has its 2nd level cache running at half processor speed. The 2nd level cache does run at full processor speed in the Xeon and PIII Xeon processors, which are ridiculously overpriced. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
