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AMD sempron vs Intel Celeron
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Celeron being higher Mhz, it should be that. In the past Celerons have always (well P4 Celerons anyway) been rubbish in comparrisson to AMD Duron/Semprons. Modern day Celerons however, I'm not so sure. If it's a dual core go with the Celeron, if not, the Sempron.
There isn't much in it really. Both are new chips (65nm), 64bit and run about the same speed. Personally I would go for the Intel as it has double the cache and higher front side bus, but only on the assumption you had two laptops of identical spec/price and this was the only decision to make.
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The cache is not a good decider as Intels need a bigger cache than AMDs
Its true that both are the lower counterparts of their respective big brothers, but I recon the celeron is also the runt of the litter too!
Quite honestly, Id rather do without that suffer a Celeron, and in fact, I have done many times.
As for the dual core Celerons, they are really crappy and no better than a HT P4 to be honest... You can have a crap CPU but a dual core only makes it twice as crap
Its true that both are the lower counterparts of their respective big brothers, but I recon the celeron is also the runt of the litter too!
Quite honestly, Id rather do without that suffer a Celeron, and in fact, I have done many times.
As for the dual core Celerons, they are really crappy and no better than a HT P4 to be honest... You can have a crap CPU but a dual core only makes it twice as crap
Must admit, I have NEVER seen a Celeron CPU'd laptop that is anything other than a total dog, and I handle quite a variety of laptops at work.
Stick with AMD, you may find it slow... but it cant be slower than a Celery, they truly are dire IMO
Stick with AMD, you may find it slow... but it cant be slower than a Celery, they truly are dire IMO
Bingo!
Last year I had 2 Laptops...
Dell 400Mhz Pentium 2
Packard Bell Celeron 700
I sold off the Celeron but kept the Pentium because it was actualyl close to twice the speed of the Celeron yet only half the MHZ ?
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My first hit with a Celeron was way back when I have a SlotA Athlon 600 - I loved that bugger and I took it to a local PC shop where the guys let me swap it for a 900Mhz Celeron ( Board & Chip of course ) and a few quid.... Naturally I was chuffed to buggery that I have gone from 600Mhz to 900Mhz for only £30 and I ran home like Charlie after finding the golden ticket to install my new upgrade!
OH...MY .... F.....
I was almost instantly gutted
The install went in fine, everythign seemed to be going well, installed the Mobo drivers etc but it just wasnt right... I couldnt get it to run properly? - was it the IDE? Was it the AGP Drivers? - Its a new board for me, so I thought that it was somethign I was missing.
It was not.
The thing was running absolutely fine, it really was such a crappy setup that it was in fact a drop in performance from the Athlon 600
I went back a few days later and talked to the lad who did the trade and he said that he woudl swap them back but minus my £30
Enough said. I got my Athlon back and I have never touched an Intel since until a couple of years ago.
No, Celerons are like poo except I dont mind owning poo
Last year I had 2 Laptops...
Dell 400Mhz Pentium 2
Packard Bell Celeron 700
I sold off the Celeron but kept the Pentium because it was actualyl close to twice the speed of the Celeron yet only half the MHZ ?
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My first hit with a Celeron was way back when I have a SlotA Athlon 600 - I loved that bugger and I took it to a local PC shop where the guys let me swap it for a 900Mhz Celeron ( Board & Chip of course ) and a few quid.... Naturally I was chuffed to buggery that I have gone from 600Mhz to 900Mhz for only £30 and I ran home like Charlie after finding the golden ticket to install my new upgrade!
OH...MY .... F.....
I was almost instantly gutted
The install went in fine, everythign seemed to be going well, installed the Mobo drivers etc but it just wasnt right... I couldnt get it to run properly? - was it the IDE? Was it the AGP Drivers? - Its a new board for me, so I thought that it was somethign I was missing.
It was not.
The thing was running absolutely fine, it really was such a crappy setup that it was in fact a drop in performance from the Athlon 600
I went back a few days later and talked to the lad who did the trade and he said that he woudl swap them back but minus my £30
Enough said. I got my Athlon back and I have never touched an Intel since until a couple of years ago.
No, Celerons are like poo except I dont mind owning poo
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I have no probs with my celeron laptop. It was refurb stock when I got it March 06, Celeron 1.6 ghz - I use it for films, internet and the occasional abandonware title (colonization). For this it is absolutely perfect and I can't fault it.
I have a laptop with a C2D 7700 running vista business and can't stand it for simple start up and browsing the internet. True, it was excellent for Far Cry (just before getting Crysis) but I stick to my celeron for 90% of the time.
I guess if all you're likely to do is browse the internet or watch films then a nice cheap XP laptop/netbook running a sluggish processor is what you need. Perhaps with a hefty bit of ram to help things along.
I have a laptop with a C2D 7700 running vista business and can't stand it for simple start up and browsing the internet. True, it was excellent for Far Cry (just before getting Crysis) but I stick to my celeron for 90% of the time.
I guess if all you're likely to do is browse the internet or watch films then a nice cheap XP laptop/netbook running a sluggish processor is what you need. Perhaps with a hefty bit of ram to help things along.
The old Celerons were dire, however because they were so cheap, they served their purpose (in office machines and cheap laptops etc). However you can't really say that with the current ones based on Core 2 architecture. Looking at the spec of the one the OP posted, it looks the same as a E2200 apart from 533 bus instead of 800.
