I have bought an LGA 775 motherboard. It will take either the Celeron upto 3 gig or a P4 upto 3.4 gig. Sis 964 chipset. Is it worth buying the Celeron 2.66 as I hear you can run it at an FSB of 800 and it'll do 4 gig? would that be any good for gaming? I was going to run it with a 7600GT and 1 gig ram.
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Celeron or P4
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yes i have a s478 northwood celeron at 2.6ghz ( stock) and i have to say they are pretty rubbish at everything nevermind games 
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I was given a 3.2Ghz Celeron the other week.
Had a play, then gave it to my mum to replace her Duron 1600 system.
2 days later she brought her PC back and asked me to put it right for her with her old stuff.
Enough said.
Looking at it, a P4 is a sports car, but a Celeron is a Lada... They may have the same engine cc's but obviously a tuned engine is a lot quicker than a cronk like a Lada
Had a play, then gave it to my mum to replace her Duron 1600 system.
2 days later she brought her PC back and asked me to put it right for her with her old stuff.
Enough said.
Looking at it, a P4 is a sports car, but a Celeron is a Lada... They may have the same engine cc's but obviously a tuned engine is a lot quicker than a cronk like a Lada
contrary to popular belief the newest celerons at least arn't that bad.
I built my mum a basic system based around a Celeron D336 (2.8ghz , 256k L2 cache, 64 bit extensions)
It is quite nippy doing normal every day applications (sage, word, etc).
It is also faster loading apps that the Sempron 2800+ (Thoroughbred B 2.0ghz, 256K L2 cache) system I built for next door.
Overall not a bad chip for the money. Not that good for games but will still work well enough.
However for the price you can get that Pentium 4 D 805 dual core for just a bit more which would be much better.
I built my mum a basic system based around a Celeron D336 (2.8ghz , 256k L2 cache, 64 bit extensions)
It is quite nippy doing normal every day applications (sage, word, etc).
It is also faster loading apps that the Sempron 2800+ (Thoroughbred B 2.0ghz, 256K L2 cache) system I built for next door.
Overall not a bad chip for the money. Not that good for games but will still work well enough.
However for the price you can get that Pentium 4 D 805 dual core for just a bit more which would be much better.
FatRakoon said:
I know its designed as a budget chip I was merely stating that the Celeron in my mums pc is definately faster overall than the sempron. Both HD's are Hitachi 80gb's.
There isn't a huge amount in it mind you. Might just be because it one of the newer celerons with the 533 bus. The older ones were naff.