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Article #261: Do The Differences In CPUs Really Matter?

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CPU manufacturing is one of the most intensive utilities. The new CPUs are
competitive areas of computer world. In coming out with quad speed pushes and base
the end, the overall performance of your 200MHz which results with 800MHz FSB like
laptop or your desktop depends on your the new P4.
central processing unit. Parallel to the The numbers you would see under the name
demands of the users, we can say that CPUs "Micron" in a CPU comparison table is
traveled a long way from 386s to P4s and basically the size of the transistors. As
AMDs. the number get smaller, the manufacturers
The cache is generally the most decisive can put more and more on the CPU die. The
factor in the tradeoff equation between smaller transistors you have on your CPU,
the price and performance. Considering the the smaller the CPU die becomes. The
L2 cache on some of the chips, you can smaller the CPU die, less power is
easily understand that Athlon, P4 and required and less heat is produced.
PIII, having 256K or more L2 cache are the The CPU instruction set is the total code
once with higher performance, in other which tells your CPU how to process its
words power chips. data. The more sets you have on your CPU,
Looking at the budget chips, you the more efficient it is most likely to
immediately notice that Celeron has 128K be. However, on this point Intel (Pentium)
and the Duron only has 64K. Celeron is and AMD does not follow the same path.
actually almost like a PIII with half the Intel made the first attempt to improve
cache disabled. These numbers shows that the basic instruction set by adding the
the main budget issue for CPU MMX support for multimedia.
manufacturers is to put enough cash on the The difference's between the CPU's are
chip. getting smaller as each company sees the
You should consider the difference between advantages of their rivals technology and
the bus speeds: in the case of Athlon and tries to either use or emulate it. It is
P4, the bus speed between the Cache and really hard to choose which one is better.
the CPU can be 200 or 400 MHz So a good advice would be let your wallet
respectively. This can give your system a decide which CPU your system will use.
major boost when you are using cache






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