pentium 4 3.0ghz or celeron e1500

[Ronjay]

I can get one or the other quite cheap but would like to know what would be the better buy. The celeron is obviouly newer tech but is it better then the pentium. It is just to build up a computer for a friend so I don't want to spend a lot but still would like the better part.

thanks

 

[Brawler]

whats the computer for? Afaik that is a dual core celeron so its based on the core architecture so might be slower ito mhz but will do more/mhz not to mention run cooler and quieter..

 

[boramk]

E1500 can outperform a P4

 

[Ronjay]

The pc won't be for gaming just for him to do his studies on, he's doing a corse in stock management. I am selling it to him to buy other parts for a pc for me.

 

[Ronjay]

E1500 can outperform a P4

Thanks then that's the one I will buy

 

[Conradl]

The Celeron is substantially faster than the P4....

 

[Sapphiron]

ditto

Dual core always, "feels" faster than a Single core, since no single process can kill the PC's performance.

 

[Nameite]

ditto

Dual core always, "feels" faster than a Single core, since no single process can kill the PC's performance.

Thats not the reason, the old pentium D's thogh dual cores with high cache and higher freq will also be slower than the Celeron dual cores. And hyperthreading on the P4 will alone solve the problem of a large single process.

Its faster coz of a more efficient architecture, the conroe cores (based on the Pentium 3's) have a shorter and more efficient pipline than the pentium 4's

That E1500 is basically a Core2Duo with nada cache, still outperform most P-4 CPUs

I still remember when the older tualitin 1.4ghz P-3's outperformed the newer P-4 2ghz back in the old days...then AMD's 64bit came along with their athlon and kicked intel's butt...ancient history though

 

[Conradl]

I still remember when the older tualitin 1.4ghz P-3's outperformed the newer P-4 2ghz back in the old days...then AMD's 64bit came along with their athlon and kicked intel's butt...ancient history though

They also did that before with the original Celeron. The first range had no L2 cache and were crap; so they decided to put 128k on to improve performance (the PII had 256 or 512 at the time).

Problem was that since the celeron cache was smaller it was closer to the processor (on-die cache), which made it faster than the "High end " processor whose cache was further away

 

[Nameite]

How much would it cost if they included like 10 megs of L1 cache???

 

[Ronjay]

Thanks guys for the help. I will be getting the celeron.