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What system would be better: An Athlon 1.4Ghz or a Celeron 1.3Ghz

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Jawadali

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Hey guys, I have a question.

I currenlty have a Celeron 1.3Ghz (Socket 370 P3 Tualatin based, 256kb L2 cache, 100mhz FSB) + a mATX motherboard (supports 66/100/133 FSB and onboard graphics, has one dead IDE slot, only has 2 DIMM slots) for my Emulation/arcade/MAME rig.

I'll be getting (got as a package from a seller when I bought some PC3200 from him, should get here by monday) an Athlon (T-bird) 1.4Ghz, which I *think* is 266mhzFSB (It may be the 200mhz one, though) and an ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Link to motherboard.


I'll be using PC133 SDRAM (I have 3x128MB, and 1x256MB) and a Radeon 7200 PCI for the system. The power supply will be a 235w Enlight model, the HD will be a Quantum fireball 10GB, and the Optical drive will be a Creative 6x DVD-ROM (these are the parts I have laying around).

Which one do you guys think would be better? I think the Athlon setup would definitely be better, especially since it can use more RAM. But will it be *that* much better for MAME/Emulated games?

I'll be keeping one mobo/CPU combo and selling/trading the other (probably for a mid-rage graphics card for my main system).

If you guys say the performance difference won't be too much, I'll probably sell the Athlon combo (will add 2x128MB PC133) because it'll probably sell/trade faster. If the performance difference is significant, I'll probably selling the Celeron combo (will ad 128MB PC133 and an Ultra66 controller card).

Sorry for the confusing post, but I really want some opinions on this.
 
Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
definitely the t-bird, especially when you consider the FUBAR'd S370 motherboard.
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It's not completely "FUBAR'd" (Hey, I traded for it from a friend, so I got it FUBAR'd 🙂). One IDE controller doesn't work (I think it's missing a pin), so you can still have 2 drives on the other one (I also have a controller card).

I'm starting to lean towards the T-bird too, but It has to get here first.
 
Originally posted by: Jawadali
Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
definitely the t-bird, especially when you consider the FUBAR'd S370 motherboard.
Click to expand...

It's not completely "FUBAR'd" (Hey, I traded for it from a friend, so I got it FUBAR'd 🙂). One IDE controller doesn't work (I think it's missing a pin), so you can still have 2 drives on the other one (I also have a controller card).

I'm starting to lean towards the T-bird too, but It has to get here first.
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as long as it's a missing pin; I find when something doesn't work it's usually a problem with the board itself, a capacitor, or some such thing, and only gets worse.
 
Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
Originally posted by: Jawadali
Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
definitely the t-bird, especially when you consider the FUBAR'd S370 motherboard.
Click to expand...

It's not completely "FUBAR'd" (Hey, I traded for it from a friend, so I got it FUBAR'd 🙂). One IDE controller doesn't work (I think it's missing a pin), so you can still have 2 drives on the other one (I also have a controller card).

I'm starting to lean towards the T-bird too, but It has to get here first.
Click to expand...

as long as it's a missing pin; I find when something doesn't work it's usually a problem with the board itself, a capacitor, or some such thing, and only gets worse.
Click to expand...

That's a good point to bring up.

Both of these boards have been well used, so I'll have to check for caps and such.
 
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