if yer old enough to remember, what was faster?

[dbarton]

I have some old computers in my shed.

which is faster:

pentium 3 800mhz
or
celeron d 500


thanks

(one gets recycled)

 

[videogames101]

Heres an idea $10 will get you a faster processor.

 

[jae]

Coppermine!!!

 

[TidusZ]

I can't say for sure, but when I can tell you is that you should probably recycle them both. You could give them away to some poor children but I think they'd just be pissed off that it can't even run windows right.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: dbarton

I have some old computers in my shed.

which is faster:

pentium 3 800mhz
or
celeron d 500

Both of them could have a useful life.

The P3 800MHz decked out with all the RAM the MB can hand and a snappy 7200rpm HD, would perform well as a "normal" use system. XP can be tweaked for best performance and run quite nicely on it.

Check your numbers, I don't think the Celeron "D" line ever had a 500MHz version.

 

[dbarton]

We used the p3 850 as a media server/NAS, until about a year ago, and it was
certainly usable. Even with only 256m, it ran XP Pro, and wasn't so terrible.

I rechecked, and this is the chip on that Celeron.

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This is in a Dell that came with XP Home, and 256m, so must have been usable when they sold it.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

The P3 800 will definitely be faster. Way more cache and more mhz too.

 

[dbarton]

ok, thanks guys.
The Celeron has to die, and the p800 gets to live on.

(I liked it better anyway)

 

[Blain]

The Celeron "D" CPU's were socket 478 models, starting at 2.13GHz.

 

[dbarton]

Ah, yes not a "D" after all.

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: Blain
The Celeron "D" CPU's were socket 478 models, starting at 2.13GHz.

The Celeron D would spank the P3. Its only the northwood Celeron that under certain conditions (when lots of cache is required) lost to p3 sometimes.

 

[betasub]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake

Originally posted by: Blain
The Celeron "D" CPU's were socket 478 models, starting at 2.13GHz.

The Celeron D would spank the P3. Its only the northwood Celeron that under certain conditions (when lots of cache is required) lost to p3 sometimes.

Do you mean it had enough clock speed to beat the P3 in most (non-cache intensive) benchmarks?