Which is faster?

[rootaxs]

I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop but i'm not very sure of the Celeron line-up these days.

I currently have a P3-800 Thinkpad and was considering getting an Inspiron w/ a 2.3Ghz Celeron - is that a significant enough upgrade, speed-wise?

Does anyone know of benchmarks comparing these two?

Thanks.

 

[Bateluer]

Do you have a budget? I am thinking a 2.3Ghz celeron will be faster than a P3800 though . . .

 

[rootaxs]

Yep, i was just thinking of getting in on Dell's deal for the Inspiron 1100 w/ the 2.3Ghz Celery for about $500. I can probably save a bit by swapping my current 5400rpm 30gb drive with the 4200 20gb on the Inspiron and selling that one.

I'd like to think that the Celeron is faster, but i'm not sure just based on the mhz ratings.

 

[slaves123]

the celeron of that number of Mhz will be faster, but it is not a giant upgrade, I'm not an Intel expert, but the ones who know always said the celeron is a bad processor, I don't know, in my personal opinion you should look for an Athlon XP it's much faster and also cheaper

 

[DragonFire]

I agree with Slaves123

 

[SickBeast]

The celeron was an amazing processor back in the days of the PII. Once the P4 came out, they started severely castrating the celerons to the point that they were no longer very desireable as far as performance goes.

Since the almighty Dell computer company doesn't like AMD very much as is in bed with intel, your only option for an entry level system will be to buy a celeron if you decide to go the Dell route.

I would suggest paying a visit to a reputable local computer shop and buy this:

- ASUS A7N8X (get the deluxe if you need firewire and all the goodies)
- AMD Athlon XP2500+ Barton
- 1 or 2 512MB sticks of PC3200 memory

With 128kb L1 cache and 512kb L2 cache, you will have more than quadruple the cache memory of the celeron. The XP2500+ is clocked at 1.83ghz, which will beat even a P4 clocked at 2.3ghz. It will eat the celeron for breakfast. This doesn't even take overclocking into account.

Benchmarks...hmm...I'm pretty sure Tom's Hardware Guide (gasp) has an extensive list of virtually all cpus from the PII to present comparatively benchmarked. Check it out. I would guess that even an Athlon Tbird 1.2ghz could beat the celery.

Tom's Hardware Linkification

 

[klah]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1622&p=4

They include the Celeron @ 2.26GHz. The only P3 tested is 1.2GHz though.

 

[SickBeast]

From Tom's article, the PIII 1.2ghz beats out the 2.0ghz celeron (it's the closest they had to a 2.3ghz celery). If it were my money I would stick with what I had. It doesn't look like you'll get much of a performance boost.

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
From Tom's article, the PIII 1.2ghz beats out the 2.0ghz celeron (it's the closest they had to a 2.3ghz celery). If it were my money I would stick with what I had. It doesn't look like you'll get much of a performance boost.

Are you comparing a mobile celeron or a desktop celeron? These are two different chips.

 

[rootaxs]

Thanks for the responses guys 🙂

Sickbeast, nice set-up but i already have an O/C'd XP set-up. Besides i don't think that'll work well for a laptop replacement 😛

Seems like the Celeron isn't really much of an upgrade alright, plus with the Dell i'd be downgrading my screensize from 15 to 14 with less of a resolution (running 1600x1400 right now).

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: SickBeast
From Tom's article, the PIII 1.2ghz beats out the 2.0ghz celeron (it's the closest they had to a 2.3ghz celery). If it were my money I would stick with what I had. It doesn't look like you'll get much of a performance boost.

Are you comparing a mobile celeron or a desktop celeron? These are two different chips.

I stand corrected. I was unaware that the mobile parts were different, and I automatically assume that if it's meant for a laptop, it will never be as fast as a comparable desktop part.

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: SickBeast
From Tom's article, the PIII 1.2ghz beats out the 2.0ghz celeron (it's the closest they had to a 2.3ghz celery). If it were my money I would stick with what I had. It doesn't look like you'll get much of a performance boost.

Are you comparing a mobile celeron or a desktop celeron? These are two different chips.

I stand corrected. I was unaware that the mobile parts were different, and I automatically assume that if it's meant for a laptop, it will never be as fast as a comparable desktop part.

Yep in this case you are talking about a faster mobile chip. 256k L2 vs. 128k L2. That's really not a safe asumption you have anymore especially with the M chip.