A Good Trade?

[murphyslabrat]

A friends mom has an OEM 2.93 GHz Celeron D with 256MB of DDR. The video is onboard crap, either VIA or Intel.

So, would this be a fair trade or is it unreasonable?

Socket A Athlon 1.2GHz vs. Celeron D 2.9GHz
768MB PC-133 vs. 256 DDR-266
ATI Radeon 8500LE 128MB | XGI Volari V3 128MB vs. onboard Intellicrap(maybe VIAble crap)

Thoughts or comments are appreciated.

BTW, I would be buying some RAM off of a buddy, so I would be running with at least 1GB. Video might change, but I am probably just going to sell the computer to fund a custom-build Athlon x2 box.

 

[myocardia]

Your friend's mom is gonna be pissed, if you convince her to take a 1.2 Ghz Athlon for a 2.9 Ghz Celeron. Just save your money, and buy yourself some better used stuff, so you can keep that friend.

 

[murphyslabrat]

if 1.2GHz Athlon ~ 1.8GHz P4 | 2.4GHz Celeron, then add 3x memory...

is that equation right?

P.S.
I have told her what my box is, I have also discussed it with this friend. Now I am asking you guys.

 

[myocardia]

A 2.93 Ghz Celeron D 340 is considerably faster than a 1.2 Ghz Athlon Thunderbird, period. A few reviews you should look at: link #1, link #2. The second link there has the slightly slower Celeron D 335 compared against a 1.8 Ghz P4A (which is the rough equivalent of your 1.2 Ghz Thunderbird), and is of course, much faster than the 1.8 Ghz P4.

edit: The 1.8 Ghz P4 is slightly faster than a 1.2 Ghz Athlon.

 

[A554SS1N]

As said the Celeron D is much better - it's only the old celerons that were crappy, the newer ones actually aren't too bad and are miles faster than an older athlon.

 

[aigomorla]

EDIT: i read the wrong VIDEO CARD


No i dotn think its a fair upgrade.

 

[murphyslabrat]

even with the expanded RAM?

She uses it for office-type work(web-browsing, text editing, etc.), for which that would be more beneficial than a faster CPU; correct?

 

[zagood]

Tell yourself whatever you want to, but when it comes down to it, you'd be ripping her off. That PC133 is much slower than that DDR266, so yeah, she needs more ram, but it won't make THAT much of a difference.

The only way to tell if it's "fair" is to take your machine over to her house and let her use it for a half hour browsing the web etc.

If you want to throw in some money on top of it, that would be fair.

-z

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: zagood
Tell yourself whatever you want to, but when it comes down to it, you'd be ripping her off. That PC133 is much slower than that DDR266, so yeah, she needs more ram, but it won't make THAT much of a difference.

The only way to tell if it's "fair" is to take your machine over to her house and let her use it for a half hour browsing the web etc.

If you want to throw in some money on top of it, that would be fair.

-z

I don't completely agree with your machine being a lot slower than hers, I do think the RAM would probably make them more comparable, but I do think that letting her use your machine for some amount of time would be the best way to do it. If I were her I would just buy more RAM, but honestly it's not a huge deal I mean if one of you is not satisfied you can just trade back right?

 

[murphyslabrat]

f4phantom2500

don't completely agree with your machine being a lot slower than hers, I do think the RAM would probably make them more comparable, but I do think that letting her use your machine for some amount of time would be the best way to do it.

I was goping to have my friend come over and inspect the PC, make sure it's up to snuff; but I could always do that.

 

[A554SS1N]

Having got a 1.2 Athlon myself that uses SD-RAM, and knowing how slow it feels, even with the Celeron machine having only 256Mb RAM won't mean much as it's DDR RAM, plus the whole memory subsystem, FSB speeds, as well as the CPU is miles faster - it wouldn't be fair on her at all. Much more useful for her would be to stick a tiny bit of RAM in, not trade down for ancient PC, which would be conning her. No amount of RAM will make an old 1.2 feel any faster than a much faster CPU/RAM combination.