Celeron 1.7: Memory bandwidth required?

[Elvis2]

I plan on upgrading my wife's Duron 800/ECS K7S5A/256 mgs. Kingmax pc150 ram to a Celeron 1.7gig/Iwill P4HT (845PE) system and wondered what ram to get. Obviously this system isn't going to be a high performance gaming rig but I was leaning towards 256mgs of Crucial pc2700 ram. Good choice or no? The Duron system's been good enuff for her needs but I'm giving that to my daughter (just moved out...yea ) and have some Intel stuff laying around so thought I'd go Celeron.

 

[Soulkeeper]

pc2700 should be fine for the kinda system yur building
no need to use memory faster than what the current chipsets officially support on a low budget system

 

[Zap]

I'd suggest spending the $30 more for a 2.0GHz Celeron. The 2.0GHz CPU is based on the newer Northwood core. If you don't overclock it will run nice and cool. If you DO overclock, it should scale up nicely. The 1.7 would probably hit 2.1 or so while the 2.0 is almost a shoe-in for 2.66GHz. In fact, I have one running at 2.84GHz. Easy.

 

[Texun]

I am thinking of doing something similar with a Celeron but I have a question... how does the 1.7 or 2.0g stack up against the full P4's or a AMD? What is is close to performance wise?

I used the older Celerons and hated the 66Mhz FSB, which is one reason why I am so far out of touch with the recent Celerons. What's the FSB for the new ones?

Thanks,

 

[THUGSROOK]

a p4 celeron?
may as well just use SDRam ~ youll never know the difference.

a p3 system would be faster then a p4 celeron

 

[Zap]

a p4 celeron?
may as well just use SDRam ~ youll never know the difference.

a p3 system would be faster then a p4 celeron

Thugsrook, I'll partly disagree with you. There will be a difference between SDRAM and DDR with a P4 Celeron. Also, though a P3 1.4 with 512K cache would be very fast versus a P4 Celeron 2.2GHz, the Celeron would run about ½ the price and have much more overclocking headroom. What can the P3 1.4GHz OC to? Probably get another 100-200MHz out of it before needing really good cooling. I have a Celeron 2.0 running at 2.84GHz with a Volcano 478 HSF (supposedly rated to P4 2.0GHz) running nice and cool. I've encoded some DIVX movies pretty quick - better than real-time (um, maybe a bit over an hour for a 1½ hour movie).

Before overclocking, the dollar to performance ratio, IMO, favors the Celeron a bit. AFTER overclocking, IMO, the difference is even greater.