Why get a Celeron 2? Why not wait a month for a Duron?

[brennan]

Trinitron:

Well, I mean, the TNT2 is going to hold me back significantly, so that the C850/GF MX rig will absolutely be faster for games, I believe. And, of course, that's what I'm really concerned with. Plus, I just read on HardOCP that the Abit Socket A mobos will have onboard RAID come Sept., so I'd definitely wait for that if I decided to go Duron. Hopefully if any minor issues popped up with the Socket A platform they'd be solved by then as well.

Seriously, though, you'd take a Duron 600@(say) 850 and a TNT2 over a Celeron 533@850 and an overclocked GeForce MX, and wait an extra two months for it? Why?

-brennan

 

[HannibalX]

Becuase you have better upgrade options down the road, as well as performance. The TNT2 would bottle neck the CPU yes, but that Oced Celly doesn't even beat a stock PIII 650 or a stock Athlon 600. The Duron is about on par with both of them.

Celerons are cheap for a reason. This is just my opinion though, like I said it's your money. I'm not telling you to take one or the other.