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Celerons

RobH

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I'm building a system that will be used for Web Browsing, Skype, Music, Pictures (not gaming or encoding) and was wondering if a Celeron would be fine running Vista Home Premium with 2GB RAM? I have had bad experiences with Celerons, mainly because they are cheap CPU's that get put into cheap computers but I noticed that there are some newer ones such as the "Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 Socket 775". Are these based on the Core 2 Duo's by any chance? The cheapest Core 2 Duo's are about £15 more than the Celeron so it would save a decent amount if they are good enough for Vista HP.
 
The new Cellys are pretty good for an office machine. Certainly more than enough if they aren't going to be stressed.

Or you could try to pick up a used E21*0 from the MM for under £30.
 
Basically, my opinion is to spec the rest of the machine and then use the rest of your budget on the CPU.

Don't skimp just for the sake of it, if you can afford the extra few quid then do - the extra cache helps in the end :)
 
What about the "Intel Pentium Dual Core"? I've noticed a lot of these appearing at the moment, how do they compare to the Core 2 Duo's?
 
Got to be honest I have a machine which has a Pentium D 3.2 in it and before had a celly 2.4 in it. They are fine for general use but fall to bits on multi tasking and anything remotely stressfull. I can bearly see the difference between the two and noticed no real performance increase in source based games either.

If you can afford the C2D then thats great otherwise the cellys are fine and clock quite well also.
 
For what your proposing to use the system for i would go with the Celeron as it more than powerful enought. With regards to the Pentium D 3.2 it would probably be faster but would also pump out a lot more heat meaning more or faster fans which equals more noise.
 
RobH said:
What about the "Intel Pentium Dual Core"? I've noticed a lot of these appearing at the moment, how do they compare to the Core 2 Duo's?
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That's the E21*0 range I mentioned. They are Core 2 Duos with less cache and are damn good little CPU's.
 
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