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How badly will a Celeron D Bottlenek second rig?

Vince

Vince

Vince

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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 said:
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
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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.
 
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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.
 
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?
 
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