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Celeron vs Pentium III

mal - Sep 22, 2004

		mal	Sep 22, 2004
		I recently aquired an old Celeron when I upgraded a friend's PC. It's a little too sluggish for my liking so I want to turf the current CPU for something with a little more speed. Which would run better, a Celeron 1.4 GHz or a P III 1.26 GHz? BTW, the PC already has PC133 ram.

		lordofduct	Sep 22, 2004
		i would say the p3... but whos gonna trust dyldo... not I said the fly. SCREW OFF FLY.

		Berty	Sep 22, 2004
		The Tualitan core P3's will out-perform an equal speed P4 CPU by a long way. The celeron may have the legs, but the P3's L2 cache and FSB more then makes up for the speed difference.

		IceDigger	Sep 22, 2004
		The P3 will CRUSH that celeron.

		Alexvrb	Sep 22, 2004
		Yeah. No challenge. Anyone know off-hand what the fastest clocked tualatin-based (celeron or PIII) chip was? I mean stock, of course.

		IceDigger	Sep 22, 2004
		1.4ghz

		mal	Sep 22, 2004
		Originally posted by IceMan2k@Sep 22, 2004 @ 10:24 PM The P3 will CRUSH that celeron. That settles it really.

		Alexvrb	Sep 23, 2004
		Yeah. The only sad part is that I can spend roughly $30 and get a Duron that would at least match that PIII.

		mal	Sep 23, 2004
		Can you make it work in my motherboard?

		Alexvrb	Sep 23, 2004
		Originally posted by mal@Sep 23, 2004 @ 06:15 AM Can you make it work in my motherboard? Sure, but it'll cost you $40 extra, and your motherboard may look different when I'm done. I was just remembering when my brother bought a badass (expensive too) 933Mhz PIII, and thinking about how only a short time later, it's massively outdated.