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quick, which one of these older CPUs is faster??

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Maverick2002

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2. Intel Celeron 900 Socket 370
Markings: 900/128/100/1.75 Malay SL5LX

3. Intel Pentium III 667 Socket 370
Markings: 667/256/133/1.65 Malay SL3XW

which is faster/better overclocker?
 
I don't know which one overclocks better, but I'd take the Pentium3 anyday over a celeron. More cache and higher fsb.

But if you could get that Celeron up to 1.2Ghz then I don't know which one I would pick.

 
if you are leaving it stock, take the PIII... otherwise, the 900 will probably give you slightly better performance.
 
"quick, which one of these older CPUs is faster??"

The Celeron runs at 900MHz while the P3 runs at 667MHz. 900 is higher than 667, so I'll go with that one. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Blain
"quick, which one of these older CPUs is faster??"

The Celeron runs at 900MHz while the P3 runs at 667MHz. 900 is higher than 667, so I'll go with that one. 😛
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"Sir, the Sarcasm Scanners just spiked!"


Hah, I've got a 2.4GHz P4, while you've only got a 2.2GHz Athlon 64 3200. I win too. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Blain
"quick, which one of these older CPUs is faster??"

The Celeron runs at 900MHz while the P3 runs at 667MHz. 900 is higher than 667, so I'll go with that one. 😛
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"Sir, the Sarcasm Scanners just spiked!"


Hah, I've got a 2.4GHz P4, while you've only got a 2.2GHz Athlon 64 3200. I win too. 😛
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FOUL!!! 😛 He was asking about Intel vs. Intel CPU's

 
Originally posted by: Blain
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Blain
"quick, which one of these older CPUs is faster??"

The Celeron runs at 900MHz while the P3 runs at 667MHz. 900 is higher than 667, so I'll go with that one. 😛
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"Sir, the Sarcasm Scanners just spiked!"


Hah, I've got a 2.4GHz P4, while you've only got a 2.2GHz Athlon 64 3200. I win too. 😛
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FOUL!!! 😛 He was asking about Intel vs. Intel CPU's
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It's a Celeron vs a P3 though. You can also compare a K6-3+ to a K6. Sure they're both AMD, but one's got 3DNow! and 256KB L2, the other doesn't. You could clock the K6 higher than the K6-3+, and the K6-3+ would still win. And it would use less power too.
 
I understand the difference in architecture, that's why I was asking which is better, since the Celeron is higher clocked. I ended up getting the Celeron because it cost me less and hopefully will overclock to 1ghz+
 
AFAIK, the performance gap between Celerons and Pentium 3s weren't that great back in the day. I would argue that the Celeron would be faster in most tasks.
 
Originally posted by: Maverick2002
ok assumiing it's running on a 100mhz fsb mobo
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In that case you'll definately want the celeron, because you'll have to underclock the p3 to 500mhz.

Originally posted by: Maverick2002
I understand the difference in architecture, that's why I was asking which is better, since the Celeron is higher clocked. I ended up getting the Celeron because it cost me less and hopefully will overclock to 1ghz+
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What motherboard do you have anyway? It looks like that celeron runs at 100fsb.
 
"...AFAIK, the performance gap between Celerons and Pentium 3s weren't that great back in the day. I would argue that the Celeron would be faster in most tasks..."

^^^ What he said.

It might really come down to what kind of tasks you intend to do with it, and if they are more clock speed dependant or FSB dependant.

Being the gamer that I am I would probably only go for the Celeron if you're going to be overclocking it like a mofo. 😛
 
Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
"...AFAIK, the performance gap between Celerons and Pentium 3s weren't that great back in the day. I would argue that the Celeron would be faster in most tasks..."

^^^ What he said.

It might really come down to what kind of tasks you intend to do with it, and if they are more clock speed dependant or FSB dependant.

Being the gamer that I am I would probably only go for the Celeron if you're going to be overclocking it like a mofo. 😛
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The celeron 300a @ 450 was the cheap gamers choice back in the day IIRC. The celeron has less cache that runs at a higher speed than the pIIs from the same area. The faster cache usually proved more useful for games than the extra cache of the PII. Or at least it allowed it to hold its own against the PII.

Edit: I meant the PII.
 
It depends on the application.

I recently compared a 2.4 GHz Celeron with my 2.8C P4 and found that the Celeron was surprisingly fast for video encoding (pretty much clockspeed difference), but dropped to half of that for compilation.

I have one of these Powerleaps Celeron 1300s for Asus P2B mainboards and that thing absolutely flies for many applications. Compared to the P-II (not III) 450 it replaced it was pretty much as much faster as the clockspeeds implied, almost 3 times.

Get both, test, then report here 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Blain
"quick, which one of these older CPUs is faster??"

The Celeron runs at 900MHz while the P3 runs at 667MHz. 900 is higher than 667, so I'll go with that one. 😛
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"Sir, the Sarcasm Scanners just spiked!"


Hah, I've got a 2.4GHz P4, while you've only got a 2.2GHz Athlon 64 3200. I win too. 😛
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Heck i've got a P4 2.8. I can beat a FX-55 at 2.6.
 
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