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celeron to pentium?
Name: neatwork Date: November 23, 2008 at 15:36:19 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 1 gb Product: na
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Is there a significant difference between a Celeron 2.0 ghz and a P4 2.26 ghz? Is it worth the hassle to upgrade? The p4 cpu is free if I want it. main use is gaming. Video card is Radeon 9800 Pro.
Name: jam Date: November 23, 2008 at 17:03:50 Pacific
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The 1st thing you need to do is find out if your motherboard will even support the P4.
The Radeon 9800Pro may have been a decent gaming card several years ago but it's not much these days.
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Response Number 2
Name: neatwork Date: November 23, 2008 at 19:13:32 Pacific
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Motherboard will support Northwood 2.26ghz, which is the cpu I may take. I know the Radeon 9800 Pro isn't much anymore, but will the P4 get a lttle more out of the 9800 over the celeron? This pc is my secondary, light gaming pc.
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Response Number 3
Name: jackbomb Date: November 23, 2008 at 23:58:27 Pacific
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Huge, huge upgrade.
The 128K Northwood Slugerons were absolutely pathetic. The L2 cache was just too small to keep the 20-stage pipeline properly fed. While the 2.0GHz Slugeron was a decent media encoder thanks to its high clock speed, it just couldn't perform when it came down to video games. The 1.4GHz Willamette P4 was a better gamer, but even it struggled to outpace the P3-933!
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