Quick question: would a Celeron 533 PPGA or a Via C3 700 be faster?

[MGMorden]

Need a chip for a cheap system I'm building for my brother. I've already got a Socket370 mobo so please no AMD suggestions (love them, running two of them in my machines now but not an option here). Anways, after shipping it looks like the Celeron 533 and the C3 700 woulc be pretty close in cost, so which would you guys go for?

 

[giocopiano]

It scored SiSoft Sandra 2002 1/2 what a Celeron does in integer, and 1/4 in FPU at similar clockspeeds. I thought that perhaps the board wasn't recognising the cache or something- how could it be so poor? Then I took a look at Sandra's stock scores, and saw the processor was behaving perfectly normally.
The "Cyrix" chip is actually a Centaur design, from the people who designed the Winchip. It was simple technology 4 years ago, now it's stone age.

 

[Rand]

I think we're all well aware of the fact that SiSoft is less then accurate when used as a benchmark of real world application performance. The C3 performs no where near as poorly in real world applications as SiSoft and many other synthetic benchmarks would lead you to believe.

At 700MHz the C3 is roughly comparable the the old Celeron 466MHz in terms of performance, so the Celery 533 would certainly be higher performing then the C3. Also if your running any sort of FPU heavy apps even the Celeron 466MHz will handily beat it out.
For basic office application performance and the like it's very close to the Celery 466MHz.

If you want a very quiet and cool running system, that can run with just a heatsink and no fan, then the C3 is a nice option as it's adequate for basic office usage and can run pretty cool even passively cooled.
But unless silence is your goal the Celeron is definitely a better processor.