URGENT: p4 2.2ghz or celeron 2.4 ghz - much difference for games?

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I need to inform a tech of which way to go. the p4 is $250 australian and
the celeron is only $130. so will I notice much difference for games etc? is
the extra price worth it?
 
I need to inform a tech of which way to go. the p4 is $250 australian and
the celeron is only $130. so will I notice much difference for games etc? is
the extra price worth it?
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The "tech" should be able to tell you which way to go...unless you mean you're the one giving him
advice...in which case you should probably tell him that you have no ****ing clue and you're full of
shit.
 
Onideus Mad Hatter wrote in message ...
The "tech" should be able to tell you which way to go...unless you mean you're the one giving him
advice...in which case you should probably tell him that you have no
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****ing clue and you're full of
shit.
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thankyou, that was so helpful.
 
I need to inform a tech of which way to go. the p4 is $250 australian and
the celeron is only $130. so will I notice much difference for games etc? is
the extra price worth it?
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In general, yes it's very helpful for gaming.

However, if you don't have a fairly strong video card too, the
savings might be better spent on a video card upgrade.
Similarly, the memory should be minimum of 512MB but preferribly
at least 768MB or more... in other words, pick whichever best
matches the other system specs, there's not any single component
that can be splurged on that will offset other major bottlenecks
(enough) in gaming.

If you happened to be an overclocker, you might find a lot of
headroom in either CPU, making video card even more significant a
factor.

Frankly (assuming you're building a new system) if you want the
best bang for the buck in gaming you ought to consider an Athlon
Barton instead. An $83 Athlon XP2800 (current pricewatch.com
pricing) is faster than a 2.4 Celeron, and overclocks pretty well
too... even more $ left over for great video card or monitor
upgrade, etc.
 
kony said:
Frankly (assuming you're building a new system) if you want the
best bang for the buck in gaming you ought to consider an Athlon
Barton instead. An $83 Athlon XP2800 (current pricewatch.com
pricing) is faster than a 2.4 Celeron, and overclocks pretty well
too... even more $ left over for great video card or monitor
upgrade, etc.
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He is using australian dollars so probably comes out about the same price with gst. :-( Although it should be much faster than the
celery.
 
In general, yes it's very helpful for gaming.

However, if you don't have a fairly strong video card too, the
savings might be better spent on a video card upgrade.
Similarly, the memory should be minimum of 512MB but preferribly
at least 768MB or more... in other words, pick whichever best
matches the other system specs, there's not any single component
that can be splurged on that will offset other major bottlenecks
(enough) in gaming.
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Yeah but Celeron processors are shit rate processors, it wouldn't matter if he had 8 gigs of memory
and the best video card on the planet, a crap ass processor like a Celeron is gonna **** it all up
regardless. Seriously, a 2.2Ghz Celeron is probably actually, realistically only clockin at, what,
500mhz probably. *shakes head*
 
Why Intel? In the US, an Athlon XP2800+ 333 sells for much less than the
P4 2.2 ghz, and will probably outperform it by a large margin running most
software. The XP2800+ 333 is only slightly more expensive than the
Celeron 2.4 ghz. You would probably be extremely disappointed with
the performance of the Celeron 2.4 ghz. If you decide to go with AMD,
you will need to choose a different motherboard. You didn't mention
what video card you are considering. The choice of video card is
very important when running games.
 
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