Difference in performance of 400/533/800Mhz FSB for P4?

[energeticelectron]

How much of a difference does 400/533/800Mhz FSB make to a user that is only interested in email, web, word processing?

 

[anandfan]

Zilch I should think. Any P4 (or P3) can handle those tasks without breaking a sweat!

 

[Biggs]

That's correct. The FSB difference would affect bandwidth extensive apps like 3D Games, Photoshop, 3D Modelling, Encoding, etc.

 

[chocoruacal]

Zero difference. Save your $$$ and buy a Athlon XP 1700. That'll keep you on the Internet for another 5 years.

 

[0roo0roo]

thickness of wallet

 

[Lawranch]

For those uses buy a Celeron p4, and more memory and a faster hard drive.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Lawranch
For those uses buy a Celeron p4, and more memory and a faster hard drive.

or an athlon 1700...

 

[Abhi]

Get an AMD over a celeron in my opinion.

 

[LesPaul]

Originally posted by: AbhiJain
Get an AMD over a celeron in my opinion.

 

[piasabird]

I would not advise buying a Celeron. It is a shame that Intel can think to offer a P4 HT EE processor with 2 Megs of L3 Cache and then at the same time offer a Celeron with 128K of L2 Cache. It is time to increase the Cache size. The Tulatin Core PIII Celeron chips like the one I have, has a 256 L2 Cache and can do any Email Task IM or wordprocessing task you want. I even have play some 3D games on it.

 

[piasabird]

I forgot to add that I also have a VIA MINI-ITX 800 Mhz motherboard with no floppy and it also can handle email webpages and IM. Via is 2 generations of processor ahead of the one I have. Not bad for a 7" square motherboard with integrated everything.

 

[Budmantom]

Just in case you didn't get it... 0

 

[John]

Originally posted by: energeticelectron
How much of a difference does 400/533/800Mhz FSB make to a user that is only interested in email, web, word processing?

A Pentium 2 class cpu w/ 256MB ram would even be overkill.