Celeron/Pentium performance comparison?

[DaiShan]

I'm going to be running some game servers in the near future and I'm trying to find the sweet spot in terms of price/performance. Right now I'm trying to decide between a p4 2.4ghz with 1gig of RAM and a 2.4 Celeron with 1 gig of RAM. There is a $40 difference in price per month, so I need to decide with will give more bang for the buck so to speak. Each server will be hosting multiple game servers so procession power and RAM are big concerns. Are there any benchmarks comparing the two that I could use to help with my decision?

/edit I can also bump the RAM to 1.5gigs for an extra $10 a month, think I would gain enough performance with this to justify the expense?

 

[jhu]

if you're considering a celeron, you'd actually be better off getting a duron since they're less expensive and somehow much faster.

if you're hell-bent on intel, get the p4.

 

[jhu]

how much are the computers going to be?

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: jhu
if you're considering a celeron, you'd actually be better off getting a duron since they're less expensive and somehow much faster.

if you're hell-bent on intel, get the p4.

I am renting from a hosting company, my only options in this price range are celeron and p4. I'm really trying to find some numbers as its a cost/benefit analysis, I need to decide if the extra costs will yield enough extra performance to give more profits (meaning can it host enough extra servers to outweigh the extra cost) Thanks for the input though!

/edit the celeron with 1gig of RAM is 80/month for me to rent, the p4 with 1 gig is 130 per month, I can add an extra 512 megs of RAM for $20/month to either setup. Prices for hosted servers start at $35 for a 14man private.

 

[jhu]

how many game servers and how many users do you expect?

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: jhu
how many game servers and how many users do you expect?

The goal is to keep the cpu at or below 50% during normal usage to handle spikes in users etc. The majority of our sales we are anticipating as being private match servers so this will minimize the chance of having all of the sold slots on the server in use at one time.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Dude, as long as we are talking about Prescott/Northwood P4s and Northwood Based Celeron (not the new Celeron D) go for the p4! celerons performance sucks ass, just check anandtechs budget CPU article, its kinda old, a friend of mine fished it out a while ago as we made fun of celerons after the tualatin

 

[bobbyk]

i think you kinda missed the boat. He is wondering price performance.

IN the real world situation i don't know, it could be either way.