Which is better Celeron D or Pentium D 805 / P4 with HT

[michaelsteve]

hello ,

Please i need to buy a PC at least a cheap dual core PC within $500-$600. Whic is better among the two
1) a Celeron D 3.33Ghz or a Pentium D 805
2) a Pentium 4 with HT or a Celeron D 3.33GHz

Please Advise

 

[Robteam70]

Are you going to be overclocking? Either way, I would recommend an 805 out of those you listed. The limited amount cache on the 90 nm celerons do quite a number of their performance.

 

[pmr]

If you´re going to encode some stuff (video, audio etc) and you don't plan to overclock, you'll be better with a p4 w/HT @ at least 3.2 or 3.4.

If you plan to do some serious overclocking stick with 805.

BTW, why it has to be dual core? Why not an "old" AMD? And p4 are not dual core, but they manage to do the job.

 

[m25]

hello ,

Please i need to buy a PC at least a cheap dual core PC within $500-$600. Whic is better among the two
1) a Celeron D 3.33Ghz or a Pentium D 805
2) a Pentium 4 with HT or a Celeron D 3.33GHz

Please Advise

Celeron D is not dual core; it just has 256K cache instead of 128 a Celeron had and a 533 FSB instead of 400.
For ~$150 you will find an Athlon64 X2 3800+, can find the PEntiun D 805 for less but won't perform at X2 levels.
HT was just a 'pill' to make the P4 live a bit longer; it won't give you more than 20% increase in any case while dual cores give up to 85%+.

Stay far from Celerons if you want any performance.