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Millben

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December 2nd, 2005 13:00

Celeron D vs. Intel Pentium 4

Good Morning,
 
 
What is the "pitfall" of having Intel Celeron D Proc. vs. Intel Pentium 4 Proc.?  Will it be like comparing a Snail to Cougar or more like comparing a fly to an airlplane (both are pretty fast, but one is bigger than the other)

ejn63

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December 2nd, 2005 13:00

It depends on the applications you're running. For ordinary office work, browsing the Net, etc., there won't be an enormous difference.

For gaming, calculation-intensive work (CAD, modeling, spreadsheets, databases), the difference will be far more pronounced.

bob_c_b

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December 2nd, 2005 13:00

The Celeron D is generally comparable the a Northwood Pentium IV while current PIVs are built on the Prescott core and have more cache a deeper pipeline and are signifigantly faster at some task. If you plan to do anything CPU intensive (gaming, video editing, etc...) spring for the PIV, you won't regret it.

ravik521

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December 2nd, 2005 22:00

i have friends who have celeron Ds and Pentium 4s. They both have the same game Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. On the celeron D it tends to lag here and there. On the pentium 4 although it makes the fan roar after hours of play, no lags, and the game play is very smooth. On my celeron (not celeron D) the game tends to lag a bit more than celeron D but not often. Hope that helped.
Here are the clock speeds of the tested processors
Celeron : 2.60GHZ
Celeron D: 3.20GHZ
Pentium 4: 3.20GHZ
obviously the celeron is the weakest but good for basic home needs celeron D is for advanced home needs and Pentium 4 is the best you can get for home use.

Message Edited by ravik521 on 12-02-2005 06:54 PM

speedstep

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December 3rd, 2005 00:00

Pentium 4 Celeron - 0128k cache
Pentium 4 Celeron D - 0256k cache
Pentium 4 Wilamette - 0256k cache
Pentium 4 Northwood - 0512K cache
Penitum 4 Prescott E - 1024K cache

More cache does not always translate into better performance.
Its more like marketing. Prescott has a bigger pipeline so even with bigger cache the northwood works faster. Celeron D appears to be based on the prescott core.

Celeron D also has 90 micron process and 533mhz FSB vs 400 and the 31 pipelines like the prescott. Also like the prescott SSE3 - 13 new meaingless instructions (more marketing).

Overall when you combine a Celeron D with 1024K of Ram and a Good Video card it performs as well or better than older Pentium4 systems that are under 2.0A Northwood Spec.

Its a good Budget Chip just like the tualatin Celeron was.

ravik521

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December 3rd, 2005 02:00

Speedstep "Its a good Budget Chip just like the tualatin Celeron was. " what was the "tualatin Celeron"????

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