Are skt 478 Celerons that bad?

[Defcon5]

I just specced together a pc for my gfs mam, (£220 for the lot!) and the brains of it all is a Intel Celeron D 330 2.67GHz.

its coupled with 512 ddr400.

So how will this pwerform in windows? decent i hope!

She previously had a 997mhz thing so i really hope its gonne wipe the floor with it. if i wont im gonna buy it anyway just to set it alight

 

[Raikiri]

The celeron Ds are ok, basically a half cache northwood and overclock well so it might be worth putting it to 2.8/2.9 and keeping the memort 1:1 if you can.

It is the northwood celerons that suck, 400mhz fsb and only 128kb of cache.

 

[Mikey1280]

Yeah it will be fine for windows/internet/word etc. If its the 2.66ghz then just clock it up to 3.2 so that the mem runs at 200, but they will go higher, 3.8 or above sometimes.

 

[Mul]

Celeron D's are cut down Prescott P4's with 533FSB and 256kb L2. I had the Celeron D 320 2.4Ghz and it was absolutely fine. Not only that, I got it to 3.4Ghz without having to bump up voltage

 

[bazx]

i love celerons they oc great

 

[Minstadave]

i love celerons they oc great

I would have thought it would get a better pi 1mb, an A64 sempron will be around that time at half the clockspeed.

 

[Duke]

That celeron will be fine for general use. I would recommend, for the same price, going for a Sempron 2800+ though.

 

[bazx]

celeron never had much of a sp and i agree the sep would kick its ar$$

 

[HangTime]

Nothing wrong with Celeron Ds. They aren't giving super performance, but they are a lot better than the older NW Celerons which really were a bit poor.

It will wipe the floor with any 997mhz system, even a P3-1000EB.

You might want to take a look in the B-grade section of the OcUK website which has the 2.8ghz version priced at £35inc.

 

[ajgoodfellow]

They're not bad but the Sempron 64 is better and similar money

I'd go for the Sempron 64 - just make sure that you get one with 256KB of L2 cache, not 128KB of L2 cache

 

[Combat squirrel]

it b fine for general use stuff, i use a 2.4 celeron for me HTPC, works fine, and thats doing relativly 'difficult' video encoding etc etc