I was thinking of perchasing either a intel celeron D 2.8 ghz 256 L2 or a intel pentium 2.8 ghz 1mb L2 and the the price of a intel pentium is about twice of the Intel celeron . therefore i was thinking wat the used of the L2 memory. xiAng

Go for the P4, it'll handle way better for gaming than the Celeron comparison. AMD Barton 3200 1024mb PC3200 Ram Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb A7N8X-E Deluxe

If your on a budget and want to go with a celeron.. go AMD and go with the sempron. Just as cheap and a far better performer. Processor P4@ 2.6 Ghz, FSB@535Mhz RAM 512MB's PC2700/32001 256 stick of each. Hard Disk Drives 1 40 GB HD 1 10 GB HD CD/DVD Drives CDRW52X

Might as well go Athlon XP. It's not much more money than a Sempron. I think he's trying to upgrade his CPU with the same motherboard though. Unfortunately, the Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU's go for about $160, and offers little over the Celeron D 2.8GHz since you're getting the same CPU with less cache in the celeron d, unless you can use one of the P4's with the higher "800MHz" front side bus. My honest advice would be upgrade the motherboard, CPU, and Fan. Why spend $160 on a P4 when you can get an Athlon 64 Venice 3000 for $125, and an NForce3 Ultra mobo for $90? You'd have a lot faster of a CPU, an actual upgrade path, not to mention other upgraded components from onboard devices such as a gigabit NIC and sound. Only question is if you have PC3200 memory. But if the question is between the p4 and the celeron d provided the only p4 you can put on your motherboard is the Prescott "533MHz" fsb one, go with the celeron d. "President Bush is doing everything he can to lower gas prices, including...making the oil companies so rich that maybe they'll get sick of money."

yea. i do not wanna change the motherboard. so i'm jsut looknig for a better processor that my motherboard can support . btw do i need to change my ram after i upgraded by processor ? xiAng

As long as your RAM is PC2700 or better, you're fine. If you have PC3200, and your motherboard supports it, get an "800MHz" bus P4 2.8GHz at the same price as the other P4 if you're going P4. "President Bush is doing everything he can to lower gas prices, including...making the oil companies so rich that maybe they'll get sick of money."

Dont you need to know what type of motherboard he has, because some on motherboards you can't just make the jump to p4's. On that note i want to know if my pc is compatible with p4's, because i've been under the impression that i would have to change my motherboard in order to upgrade my cpu. asustek computer inc. model: p4g533la rev1.xx 2.5 celeron 256 ram radeon 9250