Performance wise, what P4 does a 2Ghz Celeron compare with?

[BCompDude]

Couldn't really find any benchmarks comparing the two. . .thanks.

 

[EdipisReks]

a moderate speed willamette would be my guess.

 

[AtomicDude512]

My XP 1700 Palomino, not OC'ed, benches as fast as the 2GHz Pentium4 as long as it has no SSE2 optimizations for x87 units.

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: AtomicDude512
My XP 1700 Palomino, not OC'ed, benches as fast as the 2GHz Pentium4 as long as it has no SSE2 optimizations for x87 units.

A stock 1700+ with no fsb and multiplier adjustments would bench as fast as a 2ghz WILLAMETTE P4......I have had a 1600+ xp chip and it didn't bench any real faster then my 1.8a northwood p4 in a lot of apps I run.....But it was widely known a 1.4tbird was about equal to a 1.8ghz willamette so a 1700+ should beat a 2ghz willamette...A northwood with the increased cache has seen 5-10% gains so a 2ghz northwood would somewhere like a 2100 or 2200 willamette chips if they made it....Somewhere between a 1800+ and a 1900+ probably could equal the northwood...

 

[Duvie]

with corss referencing a few reviews since I found no direct comparisons I can say a 1600+ amd is quite a bit above it...I would think it is somewhere in the range of a 1.3-1.4ghz willamette....

 

[mechBgon]

Bottom line, if you're looking for a performance CPU, skip the Celeron. It will surely work fine for light-to-moderate stuff, but if you're looking for high-performance gaming or other processor-intensive uses, it is generally going to fall behind. Overclocked to 3GHz, it was about on par with a Northwood 1.6A in one widely-publicized shootout.

 

[LouPoir]

Skip the Celeron. Unless you plan to overclock. The Cleron 2.0 will do 2.7 to 2.8 easily. But even then, their performance is just so so. I would go with an XP2100.

IMHO.

Lou

 

[ScrewFace]

Let's put it this way. If all you play is Solitaire and FreeCell than O.K. But, for gaming forget about it! My 1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron at stock speeds blows the socks off a 2GHz Pentium 4 Celeron OC'ed to 3GHz!

I've seen people grab a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 and oc the bejeezus out of it (2.7GHz or higher!). Go with a lower end Pentium 4.