Dual P3 700 vs celeron 1.7 Ghz ??

[jonMEGA]

Which would perform better a dual P3 700 or a Celeron 1.7 Ghz.

Both would have 512mb of ram (pc133 / pc2100 for cel)

OS is win XP. I would be using this for gaming, websurfing, photoshop, mp3 encoding.

Thanks,

 

[bob332]

xp pro or home? i believ that home is only for 1 processor. personally i would go with the 1.7GHz celeron for your needs

 

[Adul]

why nota realy p4? celeron 1.7 is a rather poor performer

 

[dnoyeb]

The single is always to be preferred over the dual. But comparing a celeron to a p3 is not a fair comparison. If it were 2 slower celerons vs one faster one, the faster one would be the clear choice depending on its speed.

in otherwords, a single processor running at twice the speed of 2 other processors in dual formation, the single is preferred.

remember to use memory per processor when using dual processors. a single does not necessarily need as much.

 

[AluminumStudios]

I'd go single Celeron for the following reasons:

- on a dual system a task that doesnt specifically use both CPU's (threaded) is limited in speed to what a PIII-700 can run it at
- There is no upgrade path for a dual PIII, wheras you can drop in a real P4 someday to the celeron system
- PIIIs have to share SDRAM, Celeron will use higher bandwidth memory and probabley perform better (despite being a Celeron)

Athlons have their issues, but you can't beat the power/price on them. Ever consider one? I'm sure for the price of a Celeron you could build a pretty phat Athy sytem.

 

[jonMEGA]

did have the Dual P3 700 but just brought home the Celeron 1.7 Ghz. Its a Asus P4B533 board with 512mb PC2100. It seems quite abit faster than my old system.

🙂