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Posted: 01:22 - 03 Mar 2006 Post subject: pentium vs. celeron? |
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Now I'm finally planning a move out of the family home it's time to get my own PC. Dell seems to have some pretty good offers at the moment, but I've never been clear on the whole p4/celeron thing. OK Celeron is the 'budget' model, and is less powerful. But how much less? I don't game much at all, certainly not cutting edge gaming, I mainly do web design, net browsing, photo stuff, that sort of thing. Is there any point paying more for a p4 or am I going to be just fine with a celeron? ____________________ "The problem with the French is they have no word for 'entrepreneur' " George W Bush
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Posted: 01:34 - 03 Mar 2006 Post subject: |
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If you're going to be doing some processor-intensive applications (Photoshop, video editing, Dreamweaver) investing in a Pentium is definitely the way to go. Celerons are suited to undemanding programs and net surfing, that's about it.
Remember Intel isn't the only way to go.
The equivalent of those from another maker is the Athlon (=Pentium) and Duron (=Celeron). There are also the new chipsets which are called Sempium and Turion
Look out for the different cores as well; I'm not up on the newest cores, but I know an Athlon Barton core is a powerful processor to behold. At least, it used to be. Can't keep up with this crap. |
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The differance between Celerons and Pentiums is praformance, Celerons are basicley reject Pentiums.
I avoid Intel CPU's at all cost, they run FAR too in the desktop market and FAR too expencive on the Mobile market, where AMD is generaly a much cheaper choise and pulls more praformance fora lower clockspeed (thats the dirty secret Intel wants noone to know) that an AMD chip at 1.8Ghz (as in my Laptop Athlon64-3000) is about on par with an Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz of the same generation.
the only advantage of Intel is if your going Mobile. Pentium M's are AMAZING overclockers if you can find one plus a Mobo that will take it or if your looking at Laptops. i dont know how the new Athlons clock but i know SOI has removed the age old "ramp the voltage" trick but P4's can be pushed into 5Ghz if you use Gas cooling (6Ghz ish if you have a bottle of Liquid nitrogen (im serious it has been done)
if you are a n00b and you want a full system find a friend who nows what hes doing and he can source from Ebuyer and build you something with FAR more power abit cheaper lol ____________________ Anyone stupid enough to think we will drag a load of wooden horses full of soldiers into our city is certanley stupid enough to drag all of ours into theirs! |
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AMD all the way! ____________________ aKa: Ducky |
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Jon B wrote: | AMD are good but they are noise as fook, both my Athlon 1.1Ghz and my Sempron 3000 give me ear ache.
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Thats the crap CPU fan and noisey PSU you have not the CPU. ____________________ Past:NRG50,AF1125(x2),NSR125RR,ZZR250,CX500,VFR400,KR1S,ZZR600(x2),CB400N,YZF1000(x2),KH125,Z200,FX400R,CBR954RR(x2)GPZ500S,GT550,VFR750F(x2),RD350N,XR650R,CBR600F,CB250,KDX250,YZF750R,CRM250,400EXC,KLR650,TTR600RE,DR350S,R100GSPD,RGV250,VMAX1200,DL650 Present:G650XC,C12,KZ750,1190ADV |
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normally I would go with AMD too but I'm looking for a good cheap deal and dell seem to have a good choice and are a good company (as far as I know!) and they only do intel... ____________________ "The problem with the French is they have no word for 'entrepreneur' " George W Bush
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For what you need l would get a dell package, we got one of there P2.4ghz packages for my sister last year, cheap and cheerfull system because she only uses it for collage work and the internet, there very simple in-side though little can be added to there mobos in the future if you want to upgrade the ram or add varoius PCI cards. ____________________ Past:NRG50,AF1125(x2),NSR125RR,ZZR250,CX500,VFR400,KR1S,ZZR600(x2),CB400N,YZF1000(x2),KH125,Z200,FX400R,CBR954RR(x2)GPZ500S,GT550,VFR750F(x2),RD350N,XR650R,CBR600F,CB250,KDX250,YZF750R,CRM250,400EXC,KLR650,TTR600RE,DR350S,R100GSPD,RGV250,VMAX1200,DL650 Present:G650XC,C12,KZ750,1190ADV |
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Posted: 16:27 - 05 Mar 2006 Post subject: |
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When I had a 1.8GHZ Celeron, my motherboard was still upgradeable to a P4 2.4Ghz. ____________________ Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it?s worth. |
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thanks for the help guys I think I will spend a bit more and get a pentium, probably from dell as they seem to have the best offers at the moment ____________________ "The problem with the French is they have no word for 'entrepreneur' " George W Bush
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If you do buy from Dell, Avoid phoning them like the plague! Do it all online. I've yet to talk to someone from Dell who can speak coherent English. I've nothing against foreigners (my dad is one) but if you can barely speak english, what the hell are you doing working in a call centre for the Uk market? I'm currently 'trying' to buy a laptop off them at the moment and they are not making it easy for me. ____________________ Past >>>> Honda NSR 125 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K1 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K4 >>>>Kawasaki Z1000 DAF >>>>Suzuki RMZ 250 >>>> Current >>>> KTM Superduke R 1290 >>>> |
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I'm still happy with my 3Ghz P4 and cant see any reason to upgrade at the moment. ____________________ If you dont like the way that I ride.......Stop trying to keep up!!! |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 18 years, 27 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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