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Alison Hine wrote:
> 
> I would make two suggestions:
> 
> 1. Use an 8 mb Hercules Thriller instead of the Stealth II.  The extra
> memory in the Thriller makes a *big* difference in frame rate in GPL.
> 
> 2. Consider a Celeron instead of the PII-233, if/when you can afford it.
> Celerons are reputed to be much more tolerant of overclocking than
> standard PII's.
> 

  Make that a Celery "A". There is a significant improvement at the same clock speed
between a celery without L2 and the "A" with it's 128k on die (and at full cpu speed) L2
cache. Also, the "A" is fully tested and proven at 450mhz, whereas the std Celery seems to
be limited to about 400mhz.

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