Is it worth the money??

[eyestorage]

Hey everyone!!

I know that celerons are cheap-o CPUs, but the deal I ran into poses an imponderable:

Is it worth buying a 3.06ghz Celeron for $57 after shipping and MIR??

My 2.53ghz P4 burned-out a few months back and I don't want to spend $100+ on a similar CPU. This is just going to be a back-up comp (building an Opty 148 box). Is the Celeron going to perform at the rate of the P4 2.53ghz? Or is it going to be quite a bit slower?

Thanks for your time and inputs

 

[Zap]

First make sure your motherboard can support that CPU. IIRC the 3.06GHz Celeron was a Prescott core while your 2.53GHz P4 is a Northwood. Both share the same FSB, but have different power and voltage requirements. If your board CAN support it, then that's not a bad price to make your machine functional again for a back-up computer. BTW, what do you plan to use the computer for?

 

[eyestorage]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Well I have a P4S800D-X Asus board, should be able to support Prescotts, if I recall, upto 3.4ghz

I'm just going to use it for movies (hooked up to TV) and maybe some simple LAN games with my wife, she won't care too much for graphics. Has a crappy 6200agp 128mb card in it. She loves racing games, hope it will handle Need For Speed series well...if not, I'll break down and buy a 6600/6800 or something for it.

 

[stevty2889]

There are northwood versions of the 3.06ghz celeron as well, but either way the board should support it. You shouldn't notice too much of a performance differance with the 3.06ghz celeron over your 2.53ghz P4.

 

[eyestorage]

Cool deal...I appreciate it!

 

[LittleNemoNES]

a $57 3.06ghz celeron? That one heck of a deal. If anything at least resell the thing :-D

 

[svsnow]

yo man i got my hands on a celly. it was a prescott 2.4ghz 256k l2 i think .
anyways it was amazing. i got it to 3.5 ghz failry stable and 3.4 (24 hours p95 stable) it benched at about a 3.2ghz p4... pretty amazing . note this was on a generic PSu and CRAP MOBO and stock cooling...

 

[StrangerGuy]

Celeron D @ 3.06GHz is a pretty good performer and probably on par with a 2.53GHz P4.

 

[F1shF4t]

That p4 is the 533fsb version with no HT, only thing it has better than the celeron is more cache, overall that 3.06 ghz celeron should be considerably faster in some things and on par in others.