No, no, no, no.
You must understand, there is a huge difference between 128KB cache and no
cache. 128KB is enough for most applications, raytracing included. Large cache
is most important in SMP, and extremely RAM-intensive applications like speech
processing. The bus speed is also far less important than its made out to be, at
least for raytracing.
My Celeron runs POV as fast as an equivalent PII (or as close as no matter).
At 418MHz (overclocked) skyvase.pov takes 1:10 to render.

Margus

Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
>   I don't think it's worth (unless you can do it for _very_ cheap).
>   It will have more MHz's but less cache. The increase in speed may be
> only fractions. The amount of cache is quite crucial (just try disabling
> the caches in bios and see how the computer slows down; my P-II 350MHz
> runs like a 386 with caches disabled).
>   The speed of the memory bus may also be very important. I think that the
> P-II 233 has a mem bus of 66MHz (while in the P-II 350 it's 100MHz). I don't
> know how fast it's in the celeron.
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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