P3 550E or CII 633?

[Chuc]

Looking to upgrade cpu. Which would be better - the coppermine 550E or the Celeron II 633, at basic rated speed and at standard overclocked speeds of 733 and 950 respectively. I can get either one for about the same price.

Don't do too much gaming, mostly video and photo editing, word pro and surfing.

Thanks.

 

[Bartman39]

The performance would be close to the same... But the Celeron II would work nice on a BX board with PC100 ram. But the P3 would take better componets to make speed more than likely... Also the Celeron II should cost less???

 

[NoFish4U]

It is a memory and component question.

Have you got pc-133 memory?
Will your video card survive overclocked AGP?

If you answered yes and yes.....then PIII 550.

If not then go celery.....but be aware that the CII633 is not always gonna make 100 fsb.
A 533 or 566 would increase your chances.

 

[han888]

p3 550 will more better than celeron

 

[toph99]

i'd go for the PIII

 

[cheapass]

Because you don't to too much gaming... I would suggest the PIII which has more on board cache... but like Bartman39 and NoFish4U said, it really depends on your exisiting hardware. If you don't have the hardware to overclock the baby, then buy a celery.

I bought a Celeron II 633 because I didn't have PC 133 memory... I am pretty happy with it, and I got it to overclock to 950 like you stated above.

 

[CarpeDeo]

Also- the 550e can often overclock to speeds much higher than 733. Mine's running at 809 right now (147 x 5.5). I think it can go a bit higher, but the next available fsb settin gis 152 which would clock at 836.

 

[Chuc]

Thanks all for the advice.

Picked up a retail P3-550 which is stable at 733.

BTW running on an Asus P3B-F with CL TNT card.