I am curious if a 2.4 gig celeron is any good of a chip...and what does it compare to 2.4 GHz athlons and pentium 4s?

If your gaming with a celeron it dosent compare at all athlons and p4s destroy it in gaming

A Celeron is a budget processor. It has cut down cache and works at a lower FSB. If you plan to play games on your PC unfortunately it probably wont be your best option (except maybe games that are slightly older) but if you're on a budget and are mostly into internet and applicatons (sych as photoshop) it's all you need.

Well if you got an Athlon processor running at 2.4ghz and a Celeron running at 2.4 ghz or even a Pentium 4 running at 2.4ghz then there is no contest vs the Athlon running at 2.4ghz.

Now if you are talking Athlons that are 2400+ but not running at that speed, then you could compare a Pentium 4 2.4ghz at that speed with the Athlon 2400+ but even then when it comes to gaming that 2400+ will beat out a Pentium 4 2.4 ghz. A Celeron running at 2.4ghz still couldn't match the preformance of an Athlon 2400+.

The Only thing you can match a Celeron 2.4ghz close to is a Sempron 2400+, but even then the Sempron edges out the Celeron 2.4ghz in gaming.

Bottom line is Celerons are the bottom of the processor food chain so to speak, but that may change come 2006 when Celerons will be placed on a new core with 1066mhz FSB with 512k cache.