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Intel Celeron or Pentium?

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Mac33

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:09 pm

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Fair point Bob. I did know they were both the same just different cache sizes. smilenod

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Algis Koscus

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:11 pm

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For the apps they'll be running a Celeron is fine. Mine is a 1G, and and I have no problems with it doing regular computing or watching movies using XP.

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OsirisX

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:11 pm

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I would get cereon if you are just doing basic stuff, the processors usually don't make a difference until you make your computer to heavier work.

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Nolez

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:03 am

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Thanks for your help everyone!! thumbsup

As always, the people on this site are very helpful. notworthy

After discussing it with them, they went with a Pentium 4.

Thanks again! smilenod

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djdabaer

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:41 am

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Location: CT

Heres a little chart on CPU speeds. Seems to be an AMD funded research, but it may help. It shows the intel pentium 1.8 outperforming celeron 2.6

but on the other hand, also shows AMD Duron 1.6 blowing away a P4 1.8

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=4

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kanaloa
John C. Derrick

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:48 am

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Yeah had this said, "And AMD" I'd have said go with AMD.

I just bought a P4 3GHz, but I'd still take a AMD over anything else.

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Nolez

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:51 am

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If they were going to buy it all at once and have me build it, I definitely would have put an AMD in there. Vader is still running strong at home since I built him.