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pentium 3 or celeron
Name: fastfeature Date: May 17, 2006 at 20:16:16 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: celeron 2.7 ghz/ 786mb Product: hp
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hi everyone, tricky question here. What would you buy??? a pentium 3 running at 1 ghz or a celeron running at 1.7 ghz. thanks all
Name: jackbomb Date: May 17, 2006 at 20:27:32 Pacific
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The P3-1000 would be faster. I have a P3 1.33 that encodes MP3s ever so slightly faster than my P4 2.0
But I'd choose the celeron, because it could be upgraded to a much faster socket 478 P4.
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Response Number 2
Name: cliffpage Date: May 18, 2006 at 05:54:21 Pacific
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if the p3 1.33 is faster than the p4 2.0 at encoding MP3s then the there must be other factors I reckon in the p3 being faster - like better mobo, more/better ram. I can not see how a p3 1.33 can actually be faster at MP3 encoding than a p4 2.0 in a straight comparison. I would go for the celeron 1.7 instead of p3 1.0. Although a celeron is a poor mans pentium, i reckon the 70% faster processor speed more than overtakes the usual advantages in Pentium over Celeron. (and more upgrade options as stated in other reply)
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Old mobo and 60gb xp
