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| 195546 | 2003-11-29 04:52:00 | Personally i would take a 3 day old plate of watties baked beans over a celeron.... | metla (154) | ||
| 195547 | 2003-11-29 05:17:00 | > Many thanks guys, how about 2400+? I dunno. In here www6.tomshardware.com The 2200+ seems to be faster than 2400+ If you want a bit more performance, go for a Barton, either 2500+ or 2600+, because of their bigger/faster FSB |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 195548 | 2003-11-29 08:23:00 | If it is for office apps, the speed of your computer will be limited by the speed of your typing | Baldy (26) | ||
| 195549 | 2003-11-29 08:51:00 | wtf?! thunderbirds havent been made for years (they stopped at 1.4ghz) If you want to overclock, a tbredb 1800 or 2100, or a barton 2500 are the way to go (my xp1800 is running 700mhz above stock speed) Don't ever consider a celeron, they are never good value when compared to AMD cpu's of the same price. |
sanchez (3445) | ||
| 195550 | 2003-11-29 09:23:00 | > If it is for office apps, the speed of your computer > will be limited by the speed of your typing > Hope your aware that I've still got the energy to type much faster than the average person. Don't think this is a problem. My current P3 700Mhz has problems reacting to my typing at times. :p |
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 195551 | 2003-11-29 09:25:00 | > wtf?! > > thunderbirds havent been made for years (they stopped > at 1 . 4ghz) > > If you want to overclock, a tbredb 1800 or 2100, or a > barton 2500 are the way to go (my xp1800 is running > 700mhz above stock speed) > > Don't ever consider a celeron, they are never good > value when compared to AMD cpu's of the same price . Language please, as I said, I don't want this ending in a flame thread . But I've had experiences overclocking Pentiums, however, I don't think I will be doing it . May be doing 100Mhz at most anyway, which won't be much of a difference! :D Cheers, |
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 195552 | 2003-11-29 09:27:00 | Ok, well... I've heard many people say straight away they'll take anything but Celeron (and P4 in some case). But many of these people cannot justify their opinion. So what I'd like to know are your honest experiences with them (if any) and what it is beside word-of-mouth, media, etc. that has caused you to hate it Many thanks, |
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 195553 | 2003-11-29 09:42:00 | Hre you go sy, Cleron vs Duron (www.tomshardware.com). OK I know its a Duron but you should get some insight into the Celeron. Usually people will choose a Celeron because it's a) made by Intel b) They have a reputation for stability c) They don't know any better. They're a good work horse for chugging through office apps but, IMO for the same price you can get more versatile cpu with the XP, for less you can get a Duron if budget is an important factor. I suppose I have a bias towards AMD of which I have 2 to 1 Intel cpu but, I wouldn't say no to a P4. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 195554 | 2003-11-29 10:24:00 | CPU Preference: Pentium 4 2.4C (great overclocker) Athlon XP Barton Core (large cache, good overclocker) Athlon XP THOROUGHBRED core (READ: not thunderbird, good overclocker, not as much cache) Athlon XP anything else anything else anything else Celeron If your budget can stretch get a Athlon XP with a barton core as it has quite a large L2 cache (512kb cache). Otherwise just a standard Athlon XP will be fine. Celeron's are crap, don't touch them, they are severly cut down P4's, not worth the hassle when the Athlon XP will run faster For the Athlon XP get a decent brand Nforce2. It may cost slightly more than other boards, but it has DECENT integrated graphics (about GF4 MX 420-440) and decent sound. Therefore you can save some money on graphics... Hope that helps - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 195555 | 2003-11-29 10:50:00 | I am very happy with my AMD 2600+at home. Price was my turning point, along with the real easy overclocking abilities (Gigabyte motherboard - although not o/clocked at moment, it's nice to know I can). I use Celeron PCs at work and don't do anything than Lotus and Office applicatons on them, which is OK, but they do seem to slow down when I have say Word, Excel, Lotus Notes and a web browser open at once. I don't seem have similar any slowdown at home on the AMD when multiple applications are running, like Musicmatch, Outlook, IE, Messenger and so on. J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
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