CONTENTS 1) What is the difference between Intel Celeron and Intel Pentium? 2) Which one is better?You hear all the time Celeron and Pentium. What really is the difference? There both made by Intel and both are Good Processors, but mainly is the price. In this case you get what you pay for. Celeron has very little L1 Cache and no L2 Cache. Were a Pentium has L1 and L2 Cache (Depending on The chip). Cache is used to store memory for tasks that are being opened and used. The more you have the faster and better your experience will be. Cache is like a driveway and a car, you put the car in the driveway for quick access instead of the street. They both are standard with MMX Technology for awesome graphic performance. In benchmarking graphics, tease systems are equal but were the Pentium chip goes ahead is the cache. You need the cache for the graphics to store the information for the game to make it smother in performance and quality. Which one is better? (The graphs here will prove everything)
Processors MHZ Cache Average Price Celeron 400 0K $79.95 433 32K $104.95 466 64K $124.95 Pentium 2 450 128K $220.95 450 512K $250.95 Pentium 3 450 512K $250.95 500 512K $319.95These prices ONLY include the Processor, and Prices are AVERAGED From big retailers.
The point of this chart is to show the more cache the higher the price, but you get more performance and less Illegal operations. Also if you want to play DVD's on your computer you will need at least 128K of cache to support it and a full hardware decoder card. Even though it is cheaper it's not better you only get what you fork out at the cash register.
I had a Celeron processor and it was good for the first day or two. Yeah it was faster than a lot of my friends' computers but with any chip it will always go out of date. So I recently got a Pentium 3 550 processor and it was a big jump from a 300Mhz Celeron with 32K of cache to a Pentium 3 550 with 512K of cache. I noticed a big improvement with DVD and also in every application I've used. (Mostly in speed and reliability) This next graph is the speed of witch Windows boots up in.
Processor MHZ Cache Time Celeron 400 32K 58.54 seconds Pentium 2 400 512K 28 seconds
Test computers in this chart were the SAME processors nothing else changed in the system. The system had 64Megs of ram, Voodoo Banshee 16Meg AGP video card, PC-100 motherboard, Yamaha 724 wave sound card, 40 Gigabyte Maxtor 7200 RPM hard drive.
Overall the cache is a big whopper here because the speed dramatically changed in boot up time. This means faster running applications and overall better performance. All in all the facts are here in black and white. Little cache little performance. The more cache the better and faster the computer will run. If you want to upgrade your computer in the future you will need to have a good processor with a bit of cache for tomorrows applications and hardware. BUYER BEWARE CELERON MAY BE CHEAPER BUT IS IT WORTH THE SLOW TIMES LAGGING PERFORMANCE AND LITTLE VERSATILITY.
I went through the hassle of a Celeron but never again will I buy a Celeron due to the fact that I could not play DVD's, I couldn't add too much hardware, I couldn't get any performance out of it, and I was sick and tiered of the ILLEGAL OPERATIONS so frequently happening. I was suckered in buying Celeron but I l earned the hard way and this newsletter shows you the facts. You make the call.
Written By: Shawn (Staff member of The Gamer Site) News Letter Made For The Gamer Site