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Hi. I'm thinking about building a new system, and was wondering how good Celeron D CPUs do as far as performance. On newegg, there is a 3.06GHz Celeron D for $115.00. Are these CPUs fast for the money? I'm not intrested in overclocking, or gaming (except solitare, pinball and freecell, lol). I just need it for internet, e-mail, wireless home networking, and MAYBE some video editing (later on in the future) How do these Intel Celeron D CPUs compare to the Pentium 4 as far as speed and performance?
The CPU I'm intrested in is here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819112200
Thanks for anyhelp.
If all you want to do is browse the web, email and run producitivity suites, it would be better to buy a used system and purchase a new TFT display, keyboard, mouse, speakers and wireless PCI card.
This would be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a whole new base unit. And if you are so hesitant about whether you are actually going to be doing any video editing, I'd just do what I just suggested and if you ever decide you are going to start doing some video editing, buy a cheap base unit and sell your old one.
Anyway, you're probably not going to listen to any of that and instead go out and purchase a whole new system (whoop) so I'll give my honest opinion. That Celeron D is quite fast, but for an extra $20-30 you can get an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice core) processor on Newegg.com. It seriously out-performs any Celeron and gives a great bang-per-buck ratio.
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The Celeron D's are good for only one thing and that is budget systems for old people that only browse the web and email. If you do anything more intensive with your computer than what I mentioned above then don't bother with a Celeron D. Either get a good P4 3ghz+ or if you are going to do any gaming get an A64 3200+ or better.
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Good advice, but I was thinking about building a new system because I think a lot of the OEM systems aren't very good. I have an older one, and it works when it wants to. Also, I don't want to go out of date too quick and also want something quite fast. Where I live (NC USA), it's cheaper to build a system than it is to buy an OEM system. It costs me +/- $321 to build one, and +/- $499-$899 to buy an OEM.
Thanks so much for your input guys.
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A bit OTT if you ask me...internet and email isnt all a Celeron is good for!!! You can do those things on a 5 year old Pentium 400 for gods sake! Let alone a new processor running at over 2.5GHz!
Ignore the marketing and the elitism surrounding processor choice, the Celeron D is a great processor for the cost (around £50 currently for a 2.6GHz compared to over £100 for a 3GHz pentium 4 in the UK) and will easily take any task you throw at it apart from perhaps latest games...but then that's not what you want it for.
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Thanks for your input, jizumonkey. It's good to hear that Celeron D processors are very good. I have now a Compaq Presario 5304 250MHz Cyrix M II computer, and it acts up all the time. It's very slow and outdated on top of that. That's why I'm intrested in a new build.
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Put it this way, the last four PC's I've built have all been on a budget of around £300-£400 and when you weigh it up, I personally consider spending a quarter of that limit on a single processor too much. The Celeron D has the advantage that it is the same pin layout as the Prescott and as such you'll get some nice features such as dual channel memory capabilities if you pick your motherboard carefully.
The first one was for my office. The PC runs an application for a touch screen competition sign in scorer for a golf club...it's on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and hasnt crashed once in 3 months.
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have you ever built a computer before? troubleshooting a new built that you have $400 invested in can be frustrating to say the least. how about experimenting on your old one first, and gaining some valuable experence. Download,install and run everest to Id you motherboard, then research the heck out of it. Is that a super socket 7? can it support 100mhz FSB? If so can you get a AMD 450 or 500 on ebay for $10 and install that. While you are at it how about 2 sticks of 128mb pc-100 ram for $15. are you using dail-up? How about a U.S. robotics 56k modem for $20 (make sure the power adaptor and serial cable are included). If you using dail-up there is only so much a faster processor is going to do anyway. What I suggesting will give you some experence working inside a computer, could solve your problems and should cost under $50. I know others will disagree, and say its $50 wasted on and old computer, but I'm saying it worth the experence gained in doing these things, IF you have never done them before.
larry
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take a look at this site, the writer seems to have IDed your motherboard, and did some interesting upgrades on his 5304
http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-1EC5-A011E41-3944630B-prod6
copy and paste into the address barlarry
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Good advice and a great link too, larry. I have already done a lot to this old 5304. I've added a Broadxent 56k modem (even though it dosn't connect @ 56K when I have the service), CD Burner, put 2 sticks of PC133 128MB RAM Modules in it, added a wireless network card, upgraded from a 4.3GB hard drive to a 80GB hard drive, got a new keyboard, and updated the BIOS. But it still seems slow. I'm thinking that maybe it's because of the slow 250MHz Processor. I'd sure like to see how the person in that link above overclocked their CPU. It'd be nice if I could overclock that thing.
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looks like you have done quite a bit of upgrading to that old 5304. While reseaching the 5304 on google I came across your post on the 95\98 forum about some of the problems you had after the bios upgrade. Seems the writer of the review in the link above had a similar problem after his bios upgrade, was wondering if you found a solution to yours. As far as the processor goes I believe you can use an AMD K6-2 450 or 500. Does this look like your board
http://uk.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-5SMM.htm
larry
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take a look here
http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-K6-2-500-MHz-CPU-FSB-100MHz-Super-Socket-7_W0QQitemZ6792168929QQcategoryZ15921QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
ask seller how much for shipping and if the heat sink and fan are included.
larry
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Dude, why the hell are you going on about crappy old K6-2's?!?!?!?! He asked about UPGRADING his system, not getting some knackered old processor to learn something about.
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Celeron D's are better then Celeron's before it, thats in part to the larger L2 Cache and higher FSB.
Semperons are better processors for the same price or even less. They do a better job in almost everything when compared to the Celeron D's
If you are looking for something on the Budget, then I would Ditch the Celeron D and Go with a Sempron. They cost the same as a Celeron D and they are better then the Celeron D's.
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There's just one thing to be cautios off when buying a sempron, socket 754 (and even socket 939 also, as it seems to me) has been written off by AMD...
In the space of the next year AMD will be introducing a new socket for their new processors!
So if you buy a new rig now and it has a socket 754 (there are no socket 939 semprons that I know of now) only thing you can look forward to, in terms of a processor upgrade in the future, is (at best) Sempron/Athlon64 3700+, as for the socket 939 I think it's gonna be simmilar limit? Maybe I'm wrong, if I am, please correct me. What will be the limit to 939 before it's scraped?!!!
And that's the only reason I'm still thinking about which way to go, AMD or Intel (even though if you want Intel processor upgradeability you need a ~1GHz FSB capable chipset mobo).
AMD has better chips to money now, but I don't appreciate the fact that socket 939 won't be here to stay...
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I have a celeron D CPU running at 2.53 GHz and it's quite good for the price. I built this computer from scratch. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM AMD! The computers from AMD freeze all the time even in standby or in a screensaver! Celeron D's are very good processors.
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