Celeron vs. Pentium 4

[honvetops]

Just some info here to any owners of a Celeron chip.
I have a 1 year old Emachine (replaced psu after purchase*) with a celeron 346  3.06 ghz chip.   w/ 1024  megs  ram
I just installed a new Pentium 4/  650   3.40 Ghz w/ hyperthreading  tech

I have not multi- tasked like downloading mp3's and surfing net (but will this weekend).  I have not seen a  "remarkable" increase in speed with the 650 chip.  I am somewhat amazed,  the celeron performed just fine in comparison with the pentium 4.  Is there an increase in speed and performance (ie..startup and loading of anti-virus program)>  , YES!  Is it remarkable=  NO !   food for thought........................

[Raptor]

Celeron is already decent enough for mundane tasks.

You should have tried a program like Prime95 or another CPU benchmark program before and after the installation.

[Calum]

It is a newer Celeron, so the difference will be less than if it was an older one.
It really depends what you're doing, CPU intensive tasks will be faster with the P4 than the Celeron but mundane tasks such as office work will not see a great difference.

[extreme]

Dear
Celeron = Causal Processor with low buss and cache memory but intel original has more buss and cache and for gaming, but celeron is for common office work and casual songs listening your P4 oroginal processor was i think has a  slightly difference in motherboard support list bhut how can you say that celeron is best

[soybean]

... how can you say that celeron is best

Nobody said it was best.

[honvetops]

Just went over to newegg and saw that the pentium 4 650 is now retailing for 213.00  us !!!!!!!!!  I paid  86.00  3 months ago !!! It did say the chip was out of stock,  I can't believe this is priced at almost the cost of the 6600 conroe!!
Unbelievable ~

[Calum]

I bet it's because they aren't made very much, if at all, any more.
Intel wants us to switch to C2D, or Pentium D at the very least, single core chips are going up in price and down in numbers.

[honvetops]

you know,  now that my mind is made up on the 6600 conroe, i went reading on these  4 quad core's  coming out in late 2007  (kennsington chip or something)   and I'm reading the software is not even readily available to see how good those chips will be ?  heard that yet?  45 nm mfg on those compared to the 65 nm on the conroes .....

[Calum]

Quad core is already out.
Most software doesn't even take advantage of dual core CPUs right now, but more and more are becoming multi-threaded now.
The 45nm chips you are referring to will be much better than this generation of CPUs (40% faster, or so I've heard).
Looks like more and more cores and smaller and smaller processes is the way things are going now though.

[honvetops]

Quad core is already out.
Most software doesn't even take advantage of dual core CPUs right now, but more and more are becoming multi-threaded now.
The 45nm chips you are referring to will be much better than this generation of CPUs (40% faster, or so I've heard).
Looks like more and more cores and smaller and smaller processes is the way things are going now though.

i will be first guinea pig to have the new socket implanted in my brain to accept the chip that > "becoming multi-threaded now" gets me out of bed, makes the coffee, in & out of shower, then drives me to work with a smile on my face!!!