Building Intel socket 370 system: Celeron 1.4GHz or PIII 1.2GHz

[ahsia]

I know the PIII will be about $40-$50 more, do you all think it is worth it? Thanks!

 

[ElFenix]

no, that celeron is the same thing as the p3, with a slower bus speed.

 

[dexvx]

Not overclocking, the P3-S would whoops down on it. Overclocking to 133FSB, the celeron would fair quite nicely, but would still be behind the P3-S.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

It will be about twice the price, and definitely nowhere near twice the performance, so personally I wouldn't.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Stick with the Tually Celeron. The P3-S will cost you an arm, a leg, and your left nut.

- M4H

 

[DaveSimmons]

What are you doing with it?

For DVD / divx playback (not recording) on a home theater PC even a celeron 1.0A is fine. For recording TV you probably should get a 2+ GHz P4 celeron.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Stick with the Tually Celeron. The P3-S will cost you an arm, a leg, and your left nut.

- M4H

arm + leg + left nut = $50?! :Q

 

[ahsia]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
What are you doing with it?

For DVD / divx playback (not recording) on a home theater PC even a celeron 1.0A is fine. For recording TV you probably should get a 2+ GHz P4 celeron.

It'll be for a server. But not going to be doing much processing.... probably a file server most likely....

 

[ElFenix]

stick with the celeron

 

[DaveSimmons]

It'll be for a server. But not going to be doing much processing.... probably a file server most likely....

then a celeron 1.3 - 1.4 will work great. Memory usually makes the difference, a celeron 1.3 with 512 MB will make a better fileserver than a p3-s with 256 MB.

 

[ahsia]

Sounds like the Celeron is the way to go. Thanks guys!