Celeron

[nick]

I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
reason, or are they okay?
What's the deal?

Thanks

 

[philo]

I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
reason, or are they okay?
What's the deal?

Thanks

There is nothing wrong with a Celeron...
but in general you get a better value using an AMD cpu

 

[Mike Walsh]

The Celeron performance has been limited by the relatively small level 2 cache, e.g. at one time the Celeron had 128 KB L2 cache compared to the Pentium 4 512 KB L2 cache. The difference is not so pronounced these days, e.g. the Celeron in my laptop computer has 1 MB L2 cache.

 

[paulmd]

I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
reason, or are they okay?
What's the deal?

Thanks

Celerons have less performance, but they have 3 advantages. 1) They're
cheaper. 2) They run cooler 3) Because of bus speed limitations, some
boards will accept a faster celeron than they will a p3.


There are certian things a celeron cannot do. Like run in pairs (Except
with a custom motherboard, and there's only a handful of those).

A true p3 will beat a similar p3-based celeron. As will a p4, beat a
similar p4-based celeron.

 

[kony]

I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
reason, or are they okay?
What's the deal?

Thanks

Linux not really an issue here, as always you are just
buying a piece of equipment and have to decide if the
performance/price is right or if you wanted to pay more for
a higher performing CPU. A Celeron is fine for most basic
tasks, even more advanced tasks these days so long as there
is no realtime performance need.