Which is better, 1.7ghz P4 or 3.06 P4 Celeron

[Helvis]

Any opinions or links to benchmarks? Thanks.

 

[stevty2889]

3.06ghz celeron, is way better than a 1.7ghz williamette, in every way. If it's a celeron-d they even have the same cache size. Even if not, the 128k L2 cache diffearance won't make up for the differance in clock speed, so either way, the celeron is the better of the 2.

 

[Powermoloch]

celeron all the way.

 

[Helvis]

Ok, that answers that but how about the 3.06 Celeron compared to a 2.50ghz P4? I want the fastest one for myself of course and right now I have the 2.50ghz.

The Celeron came with the motherboard from Microcenter a few weeks ago.

IPSG BIOSTAR P4M80+CEL346 BNDL Link

 

[butch84]

P4 easily. How much depends on the bus speed of your p4.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Helvis
Ok, that answers that but how about the 3.06 Celeron compared to a 2.50ghz P4? I want the fastest one for myself of course and right now I have the 2.50ghz.

The Celeron came with the motherboard from Microcenter a few weeks ago.

IPSG BIOSTAR P4M80+CEL346 BNDL Link

Depends, is the 2.5ghz P4 a northwood or prescott, and does the celeron have 128k cache, or 256k cache?

 

[alimoalem]

i try to stay away from celerons. the 2.5 would be my pick. plus, it's not that much of a difference in clock speed so i'm pretty sure the p4 is better

 

[ddviper]

2.5 is way faster, the celerons are pretty slow.

-Got clock speed?

 

[phaxmohdem]

A 2.53 Northwood Pentium 4 versus a 3.06 Celeron, I'd personally choose the Pentium 4 just because it will feel a tad bit quicker than the celeron in most tasks. The Celeron may actually win a few benchmarks here and there against that particular P4 but If I were forced to choose I'd grab that P4, because everyday junk will seem smoother.

 

[Stas]

p4 2.5Ghz should beat Cel 3.06

 

[F1shF4t]

well depends if its the 533fsb pentium 4, and the celeron is the precot one than the celeron will be much quicker on the other hand if the celeron is a northwood one, than the p4 even a 400fsb one will blow it out of the water. (a 2.6ghz celeron northwood gets lower ifps in games than a 1.7ghz willamette)

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
i try to stay away from celerons. the 2.5 would be my pick. plus, it's not that much of a difference in clock speed so i'm pretty sure the p4 is better

Why? Celerons are fine... as long as you don't do 3D gaming much or lots of encoding which is probably 90% of all PC users.