Name: EmilioGiuliano (by ChetWillie) Date: June 14, 2006 at 13:06:52 Pacific Subject: Intel Celeron 3xx-Good for gaming? OS: XP CPU/Ram: 512 Model/Manufacturer: Windows
Comment:
I recently scouted around tiger direct and saw a very cheap intel celeron 3.33Ghz. Bus speed was low however-533Mhz.
Would this be a good processor to use for gaming? If not, please recommend something else that would be good at a reasonable price.
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They are OK if you want to overclock, but are about the same as the Athlon XPs i.e. it will perform about the same as a 3200XP so it's not a great call for gaming
You'd be better off with a Sempron 64, AMD's low cost competitor against the Celeron line. But to be honest, you can get an Athlon 64 3000 Venice for a shade over $100, so that's what I'd recommend.
"I'm thinking of getting an ATI RADEON X1900 XT. I'm a big fan of their vid cards. I found a very cheap mobo at TigerDirect. A MachViper /w PCIe slots."
Let me get this straight. You're gonna put that much money in a video card, and install it on the crapalicious cheapo motherboard?
I think your priorities are skewed.
If you're going with an Athlon 64, get a reputable brand motherboard with an Nforce4 Ultra chipset. DFI makes the best, but there are other solid brands such as MSI and Gigabyte.
I see very little reason to couple an X1900XT with an Athlon 64 3000. Look instead at either a faster CPU such as the Athlon 64 3700 with 1M cache, or don't get that high end of a video card.
"Although they mistype it to Pentium D 355, but the CPU-Z screen shot is 5Ghz Celeron D 356..."
Either photoshop is great these days or whole the F*CK can you overclock a Intel Dual Core processor to 5.0GHZ and still have 512kb of L2 Cache??? but then again according to the pic its only 16kbs on L1 cache?
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i use a celeron 346, and it runs half life 2 and Age Of Empires 3 great, even when all the settings are set to high (i run at medium though) . I can recommend you this.
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