Depend on whether accuracy or cost is important to you.  Resonators are cheaper and more robust, but less accurate than crystals.  Resonators are available with built in load capacitors which is handy.  If you are going to be doing any particularly critical stuff such as high speed async comms then I'd go for a crystal, otherwise a resonator is fine.

Mike Rigby-Jones

-----Original Message-----
From:   Andrew Kelley [SMTP:kelleyat@JUNO.COM]
Sent:   Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:35 PM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Crystal vs resonator [OT]

Which is better for use with a 16f873, a resonator or a crystal?

TIA,
Andrew
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