Pentium vs Celeron speed comparisons?

[TheVrolok]

I know the chips differ quite a bit, similar cores but P4's have more cache, higher bus/clock speeds, etc. But I'm screwing around with all the computers I have here at home because I've got a few spare parts to build another and I probably will so that everyone here can have their own computer but I wanted to know how a P4 1.7 would compare to a Celeron 2 ghz. I'm assuming the P4 1.7 would still be faster than the Celeron 2 ghz, but I don't know much about chips and I was wondering how it would really break down. Any help/links would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

 

[squirrel dog]

used to be a website called overclockers.com , they had many such comparisions .

 

[mechBgon]

A Pentium4 1.7 is going to be the ho-hum Williamette core with 256kb of L2 cache, so it might not be a lot better than a 2.0GHz Celeron with 128kb of L2. If it's a choice between any of the Northwood-core Pentium4's and the Celeron, though, definitely go with P4. Here's AnandTech's recent article that has a 1.8GHz Northwood as well as the current Celerons all the way up to 2.6GHz, and there are enough different benchmarks to find what your people are likely to be doing with the computers.

Note that the article tests the Celerons in a best-case scenario, with a nice i865 motherboard, dual-channel DDR, and a separate video card.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
A Pentium4 1.7 is going to be the ho-hum Williamette core with 256kb of L2 cache, so it might not be a lot better than a 2.0GHz Celeron with 128kb of L2. If it's a choice between any of the Northwood-core Pentium4's and the Celeron, though, definitely go with P4. Here's AnandTech's recent article that has a 1.8GHz Northwood as well as the current Celerons all the way up to 2.6GHz, and there are enough different benchmarks to find what your people are likely to be doing with the computers.

Note that the article tests the Celerons in a best-case scenario, with a nice i865 motherboard, dual-channel DDR, and a separate video card.

Fantastic response, I appreciate your insight and have made my decision. 🙂

 

[Regalk]

Been there and already did what you are thinking of building. With spare parts I built a P4 Cel 2.0 system and o/c the puppy to 2.66 which is more than enough for its used for. Dual DDR on a Gigabyte SINXP1394.
It is used for light stuff (not gaming) with an LCD monitor - Internet, Music, burning/ripping, movies, Word, digital pics and stuff like that. Depends on what you want to use your for.
My main machines incl P4 systems and its not that much slower than my P4 systems (2.2 NW and 3.1C).