Which is the better cpu amd or pentium im sure has been argued for quite some time. different people different opinions, i myself have never used amd and am thinking of upgrading my celeron 2.6 to an athlon 2600+. I was looking prices between pentium and amd in compairable speeds and pentium seems to be quite higher. i dont know alot about cpu's but i do know some. amd 2600+ runs at a 333 fsb where as pentium 2.6 runs at 400 or 533. would i notice a difference in performance from either cpu? i suppose im asking the same old question, which is better bang for the buck?

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It depends. AMD Athlons are better when it comes to 3D apps then Pentiums 4, but Pentium 4's are better when it comes to multimedia apps then AMD Athlons.

Both are good processors, it just depends upon what you do on your pc.

Make no mistake about it, you will see a diff in preformance when you go from a budget processor to a mainstream processor.

Budget processor are good for normal task, but when it comes to heavy 3D rendering or heavy multimedia then forget about it.

Celerons will get a boost in L2 cache with the Cedar Mill cores that are about to come out to 512k that will add more preformance to it, but in the end it's still a budget pc.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 6800GT
SATA II 250gig 7200rpm 8mb cache
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

celeron 2.6 to an athlon 2600+

that's not much of an upgrade.

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If you're gonna upgrade to an AMD system, go with an Athlon 64, not an Athlon XP

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if i where u i would go for the big deal i would go for the amd dule core cpu that thing could wast any intel and for the money its not that bad just go to newegg.com they will have alot of selection

with celeron a low end low performance cpu, i would say that a 2.6 athlon is quite an upgrade to a 2.6 celeron.

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"with celeron a low end low performance cpu, i would say that a 2.6 athlon is quite an upgrade to a 2.6 celeron"

I don't recommend that anyone buy a Celeron. But you're not getting a 2.6 Athlon, you'd be getting a 2600+ Athlon XP...there will be little or no improvement over the Celly. Normally when someone "upgrades", it's because they want something better...

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In my opinion you should go with an athlon 64. My 3000+ was not only cheaper than comprable pentiums ($149 now running @~$170) its cooler. I also was able to OC it to 2.4ghz with the stock heatsink and fan (with better thermal paste.) Its just my opinion though that doin a tiny upgrade like what you have planned is just not cost effective.

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