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2.0 ghz celeron vs 1.5 pentium
Name: The2thFairy Date: July 29, 2006 at 09:19:51 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: 2.0ghz celeron/1gb sdram
Comment:
i was wondering which is faster. i have a 2.0 celeron, 1 gb sdram on a dfi mobo, now i have come across a pentium 1.5 processor, not sure of the board and 512mb rdram, is it comprable to what i already have?
Name: MagnumForce Date: July 29, 2006 at 09:30:12 Pacific
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Well from what I hear, the Celerons are easier to overclock then the Pentium, so an overclocked 2.0GHZ Celeron would probably be faster then the pentium, but at defualt specs, I don't know. It all depends on your bus speed and motherboard. The faster the system bus speed, the better you can use the CPU speed.
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Response Number 2
Name: MagnumForce Date: July 29, 2006 at 10:06:07 Pacific
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Oh and I do believe this topic would be better off in the CPUs/overclocking forum.
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Response Number 3
Name: cliffpage Date: July 29, 2006 at 11:20:59 Pacific
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difference in performance probably depends on what it is being used for. the celeron is a faster cpu but has a smaller cache. so tasks which can take advantage of the larger cache may well go faster on the pentium 1.5, but tasks that cant take good advantage of cache would be better on the celeron 2ghz. I would say there is not an obvious winner here and it does not really sound like its worth changing
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Response Number 4
Name: GX1 Man Date: July 29, 2006 at 21:23:10 Pacific
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I don't think I would pay for another processor to take a performance hit, but it's your ca$h....
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Response Number 5
Name: The2thFairy Date: August 1, 2006 at 19:03:56 Pacific
Reply:
thanks for all your replys, i think i'll just stay with my celeron and overclock it.
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