Intel Processors

[Oliver1]

What's the difference between Intels 4 processor types eg
Celeron
Pentium
Xeon
Titiium (or something similar)

As am just looking at buying a server from Dell and am very confused?

[Cander]

Celeron = cut down cheap processor
Pentium = Standrad
Xeon = Server
Itanium = 64 bit

[Dave Sell]

Titiium...

This is a molecule found in the mammory gland.

[dj4uk]

I prefer AMD myself

[Ideas Man]

Pentium is the best for home use, don't use Celeron unless you are strapped for cash, the other two are for servers, not home use.

[BodwadUK]

Stick to pentium like everyone says. If you need a computer that works dont use celeron

[Dave Sell]

Stick to pentium like everyone says. If you need a computer that works dont use celeron

What is this supposed to mean? I've used celerons since the 300a days (overclocking, baby) and they have been rock-solid stable even over-clocked. Celeron's will always "work".

I would not buy celeron's these days, however. The current price breaks do not justify the current loss in computing power. I would recommend AMDs up to 2.5 GHz, and P4's for any speed higher than that.

[WilliamRobinson]

i agree Celerons are long lasting more stable cpus but think of all the new 64 bit cpus out now best upgrading to that and i like AMD Athlons for games

[BodwadUK]

Yeah but a 1ghz celeron would run like a 400mhz pentium, Never worth the money if you ask me

[Dave Sell]

Yeah but a 1ghz celeron would run like a 400mhz pentium, Never worth the money if you ask me

No this is a totally false statement; I know you did not get this information by running benchmarks. I'm not sure where you got it. I have been running benchmarks on CPU, RAM, VID, HD access speeds since 1993 and I can tell you this is not accurate.

an 850 MHz celeron (P3 architecture) will run identically to a 700 MHz Pentium III. I know this because I ran actual benchmarks on them.

[BodwadUK]

Sod benchmarks have you ever tried to run a program on them!!!

[Robbo]

anyone know where can get a cheap Pentium 4 or celeron 1.7 to 2.8 Ghz 400/533Mhz FSB, cheap as possible?? not mind second hand as long as it works

[BodwadUK]

Try overclockers they do b grade stuff as well (Second hand)

[Dave Sell]

Sod benchmarks have you ever tried to run a program on them!!!

Ya mon! I used celerons from year 1997-8 to present. Never had a single problem. I have compliments on my snappy systems all the time! They were great for their time, but in my opinion their time is gone. I will prolly not buy anymore of them. 1GHz - 2.5 GHz AMD is my preference. 2.5 GHz and higher I prefer P4.

[StevenHickerson]

I'm one of the ones that gonna say never touch a celeron. I ran one of the old 500 mhz celerons back in the day. I burnt two up in less than a month because I pushed it to hard. Had to switch to a 300Mhz PII and it ran faster on what I was pushing the celeron with and didn't burn up for 3 months till I upgraded.

So go stay away from celeron.

As far as places to get cheap chis.. you can find good deals on ebay sometimes. Also you could try excaliberpc.com and newegg.com for OEM items, they come a lot cheaper than retail packaged.

[Dave Sell]

Had to switch to a 300Mhz PII and it ran faster on what I was pushing the celeron with and didn't burn up for 3 months till I upgraded.

What exactly were you doing?

[StevenHickerson]

Playing everquest and tribes mostly Bought the celeron chip specifically for everquest because the one I had wasn't fast enough hehe.

[dglienna]

I had a Celeron PIII 300A, and overclocked it to around 450 mhz. It ran fine for 5 years, until I upgraded the motherboard. I knew that this chip had the extra memory so it was really a deal. Much faster than the other Intel chips at the time I don't think there is anything wrong with them.
Like any hardware device, you have to burn it in for 72 hours when you first get it. Use it as much as possible doing everything possible that it was designed to do.
If it doesn't fail in 3 days, it probably won't fail for a long, long time.