1.8 celeron or 1.7 P4

[The Green Bean]

Was jus wondering which is faster?
thanx
hatim

 

[MrPickins]

The P4 will be faster, mostly due to increased L2 cache.

 

[The Green Bean]

so what speed will the celeron run in p4 terms?

 

[Corporate Thug]

um, the p4 is a lot faster

 

[stevejst]

1.8 is Willamette meaning a waste of money. $7-8 more will get you Northwood Celeron 2.0GHz that overclocks to 3 GHz, meaning you can use it in most new motherboards. Good chip to wait drop of prices on Intel chips with the release of Prescott in late October.

 

[dbal]

Originally posted by: hatim
so what speed will the celeron run in p4 terms?

From my actual benchmarks after replacing a 1.5Wilammete P4 with a 2.2Gig Northwood Celeron, leaving everything else intact, the 2 perform almost equal in 3D performance and the celey is much faster were raw Mhz counts: internet surfing, Windows use etc.