How badly will a Celeron D Bottlenek second rig?

[Vince]

Hi All,

Just a quick question, I am throwing together a second gaming rig as am getting a bit fed up of mates coming over and playing CS on my work laptop while I play on my machine.

The rig spec is as follows...

Celeron D - 2.26ghz
2gb DDR2
Gainward 6800GTs Golden Sample (AGP)

So I am wondering... How bad are the Celeron D processors? The socket is a 478 so I could hunt down a P4 but is it worth it? Will the above rig play CS:S with medium quality on 1280x1024 and how much of a bottleneck will the above celly be?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Please excuse spelling etc, it's still early.

 

[gt_junkie]

I'd say it would be bottlenecked more by the celerons low 2.26ghz clockspeed. Shouldn't be too bad for CSS though TBH. If you can get hold of a faster P4 (2.4ghz+) you might find a little extra performance.

I'd say just throw it together and see how you get on.

gt

 

[Vince]

I'd say it would be bottlenecked more by the celerons low 2.26ghz clockspeed. Shouldn't be too bad for CSS though TBH. If you can get hold of a faster P4 (2.4ghz+) you might find a little extra performance.

I'd say just throw it together and see how you get on.

gt

Thats the plan... It didn't cost anything at all so I will just see how it performs and possibly swap the celeron out for a P4 I have here in an old un-used server.

The board is a ASROCK of some description and has very little capability. I picked the card up yesterday but before that tried clocking the celeron which caused the onboard graphics corruption. I am hoping that with the 6800 in there I will be able to clock the celeron up to around 2.8 on stock volts without causing any graphics corruption, who knows it might help a little.

 

[Vince]

I got this up and running last night and gave it a test...

All details high at 1280x1024, no AA, no AF, and am getting around 55fps dropping to 50 ish during smoke etc.

Overall I am impressed with the Celeron D for doing single tasks, when multitasking it is an absolute pile of junk, I tried installing SP3 as well as transfering some files across my home network while browsing the net. What can I say the system was pretty much on its knees.

Next I think I will drop a P4 3.2 that I have handy into it and see what improvements are made.

 

[gt_junkie]

Cool, pretty decent results TBH.

I'd be very interested to see the performance increase with an extra 1ghz clockspeed and some more onboard cache. Is the 3.2 a hyperthreader? If so then it should be a real nice boost!

Lastly, that 6800GT is a sweet little card so i'd say it should benefit. I used to have a 6800ultra and loved it.

gt

 

[Vince]

I plan on putting the P4 in there tonight, it is an Northward - EE apparantly, Am going to run some benchmarks before and after so I will put the results in here any recomendations on benches?

 

[gt_junkie]

I suppose and 3DMark from 01 to 06 would be good. Superpi for the CPU too.

I suppose any games with benchmark tests would be useful too. I'm sure half life 2 deathmatch had a run through which gave you frames per second results. Used that in the past and it succesfully identified performance improvements as i moved from a 9600le to a 9800pro and then to an x850xt.

gt

 

[Vince]

Will give some benchies a test and let you know. Nice one GT.

 

[jeggsy]

If you have 2Gb RAM and a 6800GT then thats a pretty good start for CS.

would have thought a top-end P4 would be a bit quicker gaming-wise than a Celeron due to higher CPU speeds & bigger cache.

Still running 4 year old AMD Athlon XP3000 with 7600GT AGP & 2GB RAM that runs TOCA 3, FS2004 and Autocad & Inventor pretty sweet for me.