Will a celeron 2.2/2.4 at 3+GHz feel noticeably faster than a TBird at 1.33GHz?

[MadRat]

I'm thinking of killing the wife's old machine off for an overclocked Celeron. She currently uses the TBird for Office 2k and photo manipulating, nothing too fancy. The kids also play Barney games on it... The dual motive for me is the Celeron's raw video processing power due to it being based on the P4 family. I just don't want to cripple her use of the machine. Thanks in advance for the comments.

 

[ScrewFace]

You'll definately notice a large performance increase especially if you get the Celeron up to a 533MHz bus. But, I'd wait a few weeks until Intel releases the new Celeron with 256KB of L2 cache as it'll perform much closer to a similaraly clocked Pentium 4.

 

[0roo0roo]

you'd probably notice a diffference if its got atleast 512mb of fast memory. and a faster harddrive would do that too.

 

[Actaeon]

Eh.... it'll definatly be faster, but not by much. I wouldn't switch to a whole new platform for using a Celeron.

Article of Celeron @ 3ghz, you decide if its worth it.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: ScrewFace
You'll definately notice a large performance increase especially if you get the Celeron up to a 533MHz bus. But, I'd wait a few weeks until Intel releases the new Celeron with 256KB of L2 cache as it'll perform much closer to a similaraly clocked Pentium 4.

I haven't heard about a 256K celeron (but I have been extremely ignorant of this so it's probably true). If this is indeed true, a 256K L2 equipped Celeron will be SIGNIFICANTLY faster than the 128K one. I'd definately hold off for that.

 

[MadRat]

Intel apparently will switch to 1MB cache Pentium 4's with the launch of Prescott. The Prescott-Celerons will have 256k of L2 cache, 1/4 of the original cache size. They currently use 1/4 of the Northwood cache, 128k of L2, for the Celeron lines. Previously they just used 1/2 of the cache for Williamettes, 128k was half of the original P4's 256k L2 cache. Funny how Xeon uses 1MB (for the expensive versions) or 256k (for the cheap ones) L2 caches, just like the arrangement between P4 and Celeron lines...