3200 or a celeron...

2006-08-20 01:15:15

#1

MECtallica: Member; +73|6510|jalalabad

Okay well my sisters boyfriend, hes a computer "nerd" like me, anyways, he upgraded his processor, and now has a spare AMD 64 3200 (athlon 939). Now see I use a celeron 2.8GHZ, the AMD is a 2.0GHZ (people have said amd doesnt rely on clockspeeds really) Im thinking about making my sister get the processor from him for free lol ( I dont know how lawl) And i would buy a 60$ 939 mobo for the proc

But im not too sure about it,, is the 3200 any better than a northwood celeron (478) 2.8GHZ?

Last edited by MECtallica (2006-08-20 01:15:24)

2006-08-20 01:30:25

#2

The Stillhouse Kid: Licensed Televulcanologist; +126|6648|Deep In The South Of Texas

Celerons are crap for gaming, take the 3200.

2006-08-20 03:01:27

#3

jaymz9350: Member; +54|6583

yeah take the 3200 celerons aren't just crap for gaming......they're just crap

2006-08-20 03:07:42

#4

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6607|132 and Bush

If you put that Celeron in your machine it will explode and fire will rain from the heavens. Don't do it.

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2006-08-20 07:49:10

#5

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6573|NYC / Hamburg

yeah get the 3200 and a new mobo (is you ram compatible, should be but you never know how about grafics?) and oc the shit out of it (depending if you have the 90nm or 130nm version of the chip it will go different lengths but both should do well)

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2006-08-20 08:01:19

#6

']['error: Banned; +630|6650|The Netherlands

yep the 3200 is much better.
in normal language an explanation for that:
the celeron doesn't have L2 cache memory, only L1.
the 3200 has L1 and L2 cache memory, the processor store's information in the cache to work faster, the more cache the more speed in your processor, so to speak.

Last edited by ']['error (2006-08-20 08:01:40)

2006-08-20 08:41:03

#7

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6626|Mhz

']['error wrote:
yep the 3200 is much better.
in normal language an explanation for that:
the celeron doesn't have L2 cache memory, only L1.
the 3200 has L1 and L2 cache memory, the processor store's information in the cache to work faster, the more cache the more speed in your processor, so to speak.

actually his celeron has 256k L2 cache, but yeh celerons are cheap budget processors for people who dont use their pc for anything intensive to run... 3200 ftw

2006-08-20 08:45:40