To or Not to Stick with my P3 866.

[Dark1]

I have a PIII 866 133 fsb that I bought along a duel socket 370 with a onboard ultra160 controller that I bought for 105 bucks at a computer show June. I was hoping to get another 866 for the same cost but that isn't happening anytime soon ,so I've decided to sell the 866 and get 2 Celeron 1.2's with the Tualatin core and I was wondering will there a decrease in performance one 866 PIII vs. one Celeron 1.2? I use this machine for video editing, Photoshop 7.0, divx encoding other apps that are just as taxing.
I've built several P4 machines for my friends and they are quite pleased with their machines, but I'm waiting for the New Springdale chipset and hopefully lower priced HT P4s so whatever improvements I can make until then just might help time fly by a little.

 

[IamDavid]

Celerons are very, very bad for video editing.. Very bad. Very slow.

 

[HokieESM]

You realize you can't run the Celeron-Tualatins in a dual configuration, right? In fact, the ONLY Tualatins that will run dual are the quite expensive P3-S (with the 512K cache). You'd probably be better off picking up another 866.

Also, note that while this will give you NO increase (most likely) in running ONE application (most applications aren't multi-threaded), you can (in all likelihood) be encoding video on one processor and doing whatever else (browsing) on another with very little indication of speed loss. Dualie is GREAT for multi-tasking.... but its not gonna speed up your encoding (unless there are threaded encoders that I don't know about).

Best of luck!

 

[Dark1]

Originally posted by: HokieESM
You realize you can't run the Celeron-Tualatins in a dual configuration, right? In fact, the ONLY Tualatins that will run dual are the quite expensive P3-S (with the 512K cache). You'd probably be better off picking up another 866.

Also, note that while this will give you NO increase (most likely) in running ONE application (most applications aren't multi-threaded), you can (in all likelihood) be encoding video on one processor and doing whatever else (browsing) on another with very little indication of speed loss. Dualie is GREAT for multi-tasking.... but its not gonna speed up your encoding (unless there are threaded encoders that I don't know about).

Best of luck!

Thanks for the info on the Tualatin maybe I'll go for the Coppermine 1.1 instead.
As for your second comment aren?t Adobe Photoshop and Premiere multithreaded apps?

 

[bgeh]

are there any p3 1.13 coppermines?
i thought they never saw the light of day and were then replaced by tualatin?
i thought the highest for coppermine was 1 ghz

 

[HokieESM]

I have no idea if the Adobe programs are multi-threaded... sorry. Most of my computer work is numerical... so, unfortunately, the only time I deal with Photoshop is to clean up pictures from my digital camera (and that's not very CPU intensive).

There are Cu-mine 1.1s... but they're rare. You might just need to pick up a pair of 1.0 Cu-mine core. If you're planning to go dualie, check out www.2cpu.com (and definitely check out the forums for good info). I learned enough over there to build a dual Athlon machine for a number cruncher.

Good luck!

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Celerons are very, very bad for video editing.. Very bad. Very slow.

Obviously you havent seen the Tualatin Celerons in action. They beat 256KB Pentium3 Coppermines and match 256KB Tualatin Pentium 3's. However, no Celeron beyond Coppermine has SMP enabled.

Your board might support Tualatins, as it was bought in June (2002?). I'd check the manufacturer to be sure.

 

[DSTA]

If you are feeling adventurous, you could try modding a Tualatin Celeron to work in the mobo, or get an adapter from upgradeware. No guaratee that it works, but a Celeron Tualatin 1.1A @ 1.46 GHz would be much quicker than you PIII. As has been noted, no SMP joy with the Tualtin Celeron.

BTW, what board are you using?