Intel Celeron D 331 Prescott 533MHz

Raibaru

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Sup all, I've recently placed an order for my new system which will be a Conroe E6600. Unfortunetly, the chips have been pushed back yet again and likely wont see my "pre-order" until September.

So, from what I understand this chip:
Intel Celeron D 331 Prescott 533MHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819112206

The above will run in my Gigabyte DS3 and works with my RAM selection
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128012
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145034

Figure for $50 it's worth it for nothing else to setup my machine so when the E6600 comes in I simply put in the new CPU and I'm good to go.

Question I'm asking is, I currently am running a P4 2.4, is the chip above going to give a noticeable improvement over the P4 2.4? I need to gut this machine and would rather wait for the Conroe if it isn't going to be worth the trouble of using the Pentium Celeron D.
 

Raibaru

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forgot to mention, primary focus is gaming too. Will the Celeron D still outperform my P4 2.4? Or atleast be comparable to until the E6600 shows up.
 

stevty2889

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Not going to be a noticable differance between it and the 2.4ghz P4, unless you had a 2.4c, in which case you might notice the lack of hyperthreading.