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Perhaps you can get a Semprom with a smaller clock but a higher FSB. I |
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have an AMD Semprom 2400+ with 400 Mhz FSB, 1 GB of Ram and I'm very |
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happy with it. It plays all the games I want and I can work in it very |
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smoothly. I recently upgrade to 1 GB of Ram, used to be 512 Mb and the |
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difference is amazing compared to 256, specially compile speeds. So, |
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unless you might want to upgrade you Celeron to a P4, assuming the |
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motherboard will take both, I'd go with Semprom, I believe it's more |
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cost-effective. |
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2005/10/2, Folken <folken@××××××××××.ch>: |
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> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote: |
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> > The GHz sound impressive but I know neither chip is a very powerful, I |
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> > believe they 'water down' the internals !. I cant find anywhere a |
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> > comparison between my PIII & these two possibilitys. |
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> |
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> I found a comparision between (almost) your target cpus: |
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> http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=61 |
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> (note the celeron is actually the 2.8 GHz Model) |
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> |
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> > My PIII is old technology, these two are newer technology with faster |
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> > clock speeds but engineered to a price, would the speed increase be |
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> > noticeable ? Any comments ? |
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> The 512 MB Ram will defently noticeable when you work with KDE. KDE is |
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> very ram hungry and I wouldn't recommend to run it with less than 512. |
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> (Although speed / memory consumption seem to have improved miles with |
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> the latest versions of kde) |
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> > Intel Celeron 2.4GHz 128K 400MHz Socket 478 CPU OEM - 512MB RAM |
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> > AMD Sempron 2800+ 2.0GHz (333FSB) 256K Cache Socket A OEM - 512 MB RAM |
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> As to the processors, I'd go for the Sempron. Celerons are IMO castraded |
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> pentiums and really not great for compiler runs. The halved L1 cache |
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> really hits on the performance in general. Since you are on a contrained |
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> budget I'd even more strongley urge you to amd, since they usually give |
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> you more performance for the buck. |
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> (That being said.. i'm no fan of intel. Therefore take this with a grain |
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> of salt.) |
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> Oh btw.. you may ignore GHz numbers now.. they are no longer an |
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> indicator of how "fast" processors are. |
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> - Folken |
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