Intel Celeron G530

[Smoogels]

I have a question.

Would this CPU be able to handle basic work loads such as word processing, web browsing and videos? I assume it would but I just wanted feedback about it. Is it worth spending a few extra pounds to grab a Pentium G620?

But also, will its integrated graphics be fine to watch HD films? Or would I be better off getting some silent discrete graphics card along with it? Something along the lines of a 5450?

Thanks in advance

 

[ubersonic]

Would this CPU be able to handle basic work loads such as word processing, web browsing and videos?

Yes.

But also, will its integrated graphics be fine to watch HD films? Or would I be better off getting some silent discrete graphics card along with it? Something along the lines of a 5450?

Thanks in advance

I would say yes but you may want to check for confirmation, its a pretty weak GPU by modern standards but then so is a Geforce 4 Ti4600 and I would assume that could handle 720p/1080p MP4's /shrug.

 

[Muel]

I'd go for a G620 personally as it has 3mb of cache instead of 2mb. 50% more cache has gotta come in useful, plus a slightly higher clock for only £14 more. I'd say that's money well spent personally.

IGP should be fine for HD films. If not you can easily get graphics card later on.

 

[Tea_Bag]

don't be scared by the celeron branding, under the hood its got Sandy bridge cores, so its pretty nippy. it'll do fine.

the Pentium g620 is only a little faster than the celeron, and it kicks the old quad core q6600 up and down the park.

 

[sarge78]

The Celeron has a fully dedicated video decoder, it'll play everything you throw at it with minimal power consumption.

(The rubbish GPU plays no part in video decoding)

 

[Combat squirrel]

The 530 will be fine, see my post on it recently in this CPU section...im playing F1 2011 maxed out settings with a 6970, more than handles it self

Saying that I bought an i5 before checking what this celeron can do :/ but for sure the celeron is awesome!

 

[Lokken86]

I'd go for a G620 personally as it has 3mb of cache instead of 2mb. 50% more cache has gotta come in useful, plus a slightly higher clock for only £14 more. I'd say that's money well spent personally.

IGP should be fine for HD films. If not you can easily get graphics card later on.

This. 14 pounds is nothing when you consider how long you can use the cpu, it will run for years so imho push for something a tad beefier.

 

[ChilledLJ]

14 pounds is a lot in relation to the cost of the CPU for a real world difference you will never notice

 

[Tea_Bag]

14 pounds is a lot in relation to the cost of the CPU for a real world difference you will never notice

I agree. I have a g620 in my server/HTPC, and its complete over kill.

£14 isn't much but it makes the Pentium 150% more expensive. I'd get a better motherboard with a few more features instead, that'll likely be more future proof. when the celeron starts to feel its age and struggle, the g620 will hardly last any longer.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Read my point again noooo point in spending money needlessly forget the 620, celeron is fine

 

[Lokken86]

Point is 150% or not its still just 14 measly pounds imo. Get the better even just for the hell of it you never know when the extra grunt might come in handy. Spagetti instead of chicken for 2 nights will cover it

 

[Muel]

Exactly, it's like when I was buying RAM for my Dad's new build, he'll probably only ever use 4gb, but 8gb cost only £20 more, so I put 8gb in. Probably no use at all, but £20 for some future proofing is worth it IMO...

 

[sarge78]

Spagetti instead of chicken for 2 nights will cover it

Chicken everytime!!

There's FA real world difference between a G620 and G530, no point wasting money.
May as well spend another £100 and get a quad core IB or wait for a dual core IB with HD4000 GPU to replace the current £99 i3.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Exactly, it's like when I was buying RAM for my Dad's new build, he'll probably only ever use 4gb, but 8gb cost only £20 more, so I put 8gb in. Probably no use at all, but £20 for some future proofing is worth it IMO...

ITS NOT FUTURE PROOFING THOUGH !!!! SHHEEEESHHHHH ! lol

REALLY is not, when celeron sandy bridge core struggles, so will an ****** pentium not much faster than it, when your doing 1fps or waiting 10 minutes for windows 15 to load or whatever.... the extra couple of megs of cache mem and a few mhz will do NOTHING

SAME AS A PENTIUM 4 3.4GHZ GETTING ITS ASS HANDED TO IT BY A 2.4GHZ CELERON SANDY B CORE - BUT WAIT - the PENTIUM 4 has LOADS more cache memory and mhz'zzzzz ?

Can I 'a' make it 'a' any 'a' more 'a' simples?

 

[Muel]

Gah, double post.

 

[Muel]

Faster is better.

I got Daddy an i3-2120 for web browsing. (Y) He just wants something that will still be "working" in 10 years. The faster it is, the more chance it has ha of still being fast enough in 2022.

 

[Lokken86]

ITS NOT FUTURE PROOFING THOUGH !!!! SHHEEEESHHHHH ! lol

REALLY is not, when celeron sandy bridge core struggles, so will an ****** pentium not much faster than it, when your doing 1fps or waiting 10 minutes for windows 15 to load or whatever.... the extra couple of megs of cache mem and a few mhz will do NOTHING

SAME AS A PENTIUM 4 3.4GHZ GETTING ITS ASS HANDED TO IT BY A 2.4GHZ CELERON SANDY B CORE - BUT WAIT - the PENTIUM 4 has LOADS more cache memory and mhz'zzzzz ?

Can I 'a' make it 'a' any 'a' more 'a' simples?

You are way off. The point he's making is, while 4Gb memory is enough for today, the few £ he had to spend to double the memory all the way up to 8Gb would give the build more future proofing. Which it will. What has that got anything to do with P4 vs Sandy? What you are doing is comparing apples to oranges.

 

[Combat squirrel]

You are way off. The point he's making is, while 4Gb memory is enough for today, the few £ he had to spend to double the memory all the way up to 8Gb would give the build more future proofing. Which it will. What has that got anything to do with P4 vs Sandy? What you are doing is comparing apples to oranges.

Its not way off, while more memory is indeed more useful in 'future proofing' (doesn't exist) .......there was mention above 4 times about getting the 'better' cpu......WHA...................go on, scroll up, loads there about the cpu thing.

Also chummy iv been messing with PC hardware since 1986 I know what im talking about, im not arrogant I just do.

Putting my money where my mouth is:

The closest cpu's I could find for our little comparison here:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/65?vs=407

Was the slowest core 2 duo and unfort the pentium sandy bridge.

HOWEVER since the core 2 duo range totally destroyed the pentium 4 class processors, a top of the range pentium 4 would get obliterated by the celeron of today.

Im using this as pentium 4 is easly 10 years old, and help supports my point which is:

'a pentium 640 and a celeron 530 have marginal performance difference, certainly not worth increasing expenditure by 150%'

SO there we have friend, FACT supports my argument, and my hypothesis says in 10 years there will be naff all perceptible performance difference in the 2 CPU's

The RAM as you so sneakily moved onto in your reply (clearly avoiding the above talk about CPU's) would make a more helpful difference, but by that point hard drives will be faster than ram is today, so, meh, tough call, still 8gb wont be particularly useful, I predict it would run about as fast as 4gb on windows 15 or whatever is out.

Now stop dividing by zero and check out the raft of INFORMATION for ones self.

Now sir, I hope one takes this as a humorous post and hopefully be a jolly good sporting chap about the matter, don ones monical ,and retort with wisdom.

 

[Lokken86]

Im talking about RAM because his post was about RAM was you that steered it towards cpu's from there.

But ok. Lets talk about cpu's. Why bring up core 2 duo and P4 when when the OP is trying to decide to step up from a sandybridge to a slightly higher SANDYBRIDGE. Tbh bigger is better, faster is better, no matter how small an upgrade its still a small price to pay and yes even 150% more (I did say before). Thats all im saying so no need to get touchy.

Not that the fact you own the lower branded of the 2 cpu's in question has anything to do with the advice you're giving tho...

I noticed in the thread you made you say the cpu with a radeon 6970 is dipping to 30fps and if your fine with that thats cool but tbh the extra cache and 200mhz of the g620 will prob lift that a few more fps which imo is noticable at that framerate. Its a sandybridge after all so the gap between say 2.6 and 2.8ghz will be more benefit than say a 3ghz p4 to 3.2ghz p4.