Should I get the Intel Celeron 2.4ghz processor, or the Pentium 4 chip, also at 2.4ghz? I need detailed reasons on the differences, and why you think I should get one over the other.
~Polatrite~
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 Dec 31 2003, 9:47 pm
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Jan 1 2004, 1:41 am
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Sticky_Chronic
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Get the Pentium. Celerons are made with cheaper materials and are not as advanced as Pentium. Put it this way, if you get the Celeron it will run like a Pentium 3.
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The pentuim doesnt crash and burn when it gets hot. Thats a very good reason.
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Something like that. Celerons are either for people who don't want to spend lots of money, or for business desktops, which don't really need much calculating done. The pentium 4 has more advanced architecture, and can do more calculations per second.
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All processors crash and burn when they get hot, Pentiums can just take a higher tempreture. But if you don't want to spend too much money on a Pentium, get an Athlon instead. They run about the same price as Celerons but much better quality. They don't quite match up to Pentiums but that's OK with me if it's half the price.
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The Pentium 4, actually, does NOT crash and burn when it gets hot. It just throttles down to a lower mhz speed until it's cool again. So instead of processors like the Athlon, or Celeron, which will crash (or possibly catch fire, if you get an older AMD chip) the computer if they get too hot (say from a heatsink falling off) your computer will continue to function with a Pentium 4, albeit more slowly. No loss of data.
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Sticky_Chronic wrote:
Put it this way, if you get the Celeron it will run like a Pentium 3. So you're saying the Celeron runs faster than the Pentium 4 at the same clock speed? | |
And, since the P4's are newest in the series on the market, You can also get Hyper-Threading Technology, which essentially adds on an extra 533-800mhz to assist/remove heavy loads of calculations on the processor; it acts like a secretary for the Main Processor.
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Jon88 wrote:
I think he's saying the Celeron runs slower. What Air is trying to say is P3's are faster then P4's. I have heard this many times also. When they come out with the P5, if its called that, it will just be a reconditioned P4. | |
Stealth 2k wrote:
Jon88 wrote: Yea, The first generation P4 was slower then the P3. That is not true with this generation of the P4. Also Intel already announced that the Prescott will keep the P4 name. | |
FenrirXIII wrote:
yea but secretaries are 'preferred' lol This is the perfect opening for a "cyber-" joke. | |
Well I'm not exactly a computer wiz, but I know a few things about computers. But if that's true about P3s being faster than P4s then instead knock off about 500mhz off the Celeron and thats what it'll run like(give or take). I was trying to say that Celerons are slower though. Not only slower but less stable too.
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So, what you are trying to say is, you don't know a damned thing about what your talking about, correct?
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