Athlon 800 vs Celeron 1.1

[travsav]

My sister has two old pcs... one with the athlon 800, and one with the celeron 1.1ghz...

Which one is the better? I'd say athlon but that's because I hate celerons.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

This comparison completely depends on which application you're using, assuming your video cards and RAM are of comparable performance.

I did a quick check on Tom's 2004 CPU chart by comparing a Celeron 1.2 Ghz and Athlon B 800 Mhz (closest comparison available I think).

The Athlon came out ahead in 3DMark03, almost even in Wolfenstein, and got stomped in most other apps. It didn't even register for some of the apps (prob. didn't meet minimum requirements).

So I'm guessing the Athlon would really shine for old school games but not much else. (I'm not a huge fan of Celerons either; I had an old Duron 700 and a Celeron 766 back in the day, and I much preferred the Duron.)

 

[f4phantom2500]

well, it depends. i'm not super familiar with processors from that time, is the athlon a slot a or socket a chip? i'm guessing the celeron is p3 based? will either of them overclock? is your sister willing to do it?

 

[RussianSensation]

haha you aren't a good brother if you are letting your sister run Athlon 800. I am sure you could have chipped in $100 for her X2 3800+ and barebones mobo with onboard video. Be a man, do the right thang !

Honestly though, comparing those 2 is like comparing what's faster a 1973 VW Beetle or a Hummer H1 from 0-60mph.

Also depends on the other components in the system. Ram and hard drive speed will sway one system over the other easily. I mean if both of them only have 256mb of ram, it's a pain to run XP on either and I wouldn't even begin to compare the processor speed.

 

[robmurphy]

If the graphics, hard disk size, and amount of memory are the same I would check if the Celeron is a Tualatin one. If it is get that. It runs cool, and it has 256K L2 cache. The S370 Celerons before it had 128K cache. The Athlon may have more Cache, but it think it will run hotter.

The CPU charts shows the Athlon at PC133 memory and the Celeron at PC100, so there will be a little difference in memory speed.

If the motherboard in the Celeron PC will run FSBs > 100 (if it will take a P3 it should) then you have an easy overclock. I ran a 1.2 Gig Celeron for a few years at 120 FSB, meaning the CPU was running at 1.44G. On a warm day with a basic/cheap cooler it would get to 35 - 38 C. If the memory in it is PC100 you may need to change it for PC133. Mine ran stable with cheap generic PC100 memory. Upping the FSB will reduce any difference down to mempory speed

The Tualatin Celeron was effectively a P3 Pentium, only with an FSB of 100 Meg instead of 133. The P3 and the Tualatin Celeron had the same amount of L2 Cache.

As the CPU charts show the Celeron is quicker than the Athlon and a 1.0 Gig P3, and thats running at 100 FSB.

Trying to overclock the Athlon would be more difficult as the FSB is already 133, and that is probably as far as the motherboard will go.

Rob.

 

[Arcanedeath]

We need more detialed system spec to be able to answer this, if the celeron is a coppermine based one it's prob. slower than the athlon, if its a Tualatin w/ the 256k of cache is prob faster than the athlon, also check if the athlon is a socket or slot based one, if its a slot, its prob. not as fast as the celeron.