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Hi people !

I want advice in a trouble i have now.

I have a customer who has a old machine and his cpu is dead. Now i have 2 spare cpus: A P3 1.0Ghz Coopermine and a celeron tualatin 1.4Ghz.

The guy want to reanimate his old pal and don't want a new machine, so
the question here is what cpu is the best.
Both of them have 256 of cache.

Is the p3 more faster than the celeron one ?

The celeron have the same circuits quality, features, etc. ?

So which cpu is the best performer ?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Hi people !

I want advice in a trouble i have now.

I have a customer who has a old machine and his cpu is dead. Now i have 2 spare cpus: A P3 1.0Ghz Coopermine and a celeron tualatin 1.4Ghz.

The guy want to reanimate his old pal and don't want a new machine, so
the question here is what cpu is the best.
Both of them have 256 of cache.

Is the p3 more faster than the celeron one ?

The celeron have the same circuits quality, features, etc. ?

So which cpu is the best performer ?

Thanks in advance.
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If even the P3 like the Celeron has a 100MHz FSB, the only distinguishing feature should be the crippled associativity of the celeron cache but the 400MHz+ will make up for both of them. The celeron should perform better and tualatins also run cooler.
 
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Hi people !

I want advice in a trouble i have now.

I have a customer who has a old machine and his cpu is dead. Now i have 2 spare cpus: A P3 1.0Ghz Coopermine and a celeron tualatin 1.4Ghz.

The guy want to reanimate his old pal and don't want a new machine, so
the question here is what cpu is the best.
Both of them have 256 of cache.

Is the p3 more faster than the celeron one ?

The celeron have the same circuits quality, features, etc. ?

So which cpu is the best performer ?

Thanks in advance.
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If even the P3 like the Celeron has a 100MHz FSB, the only distinguishing feature should be the crippled associativity of the celeron cache but the 400MHz+ will make up for both of them. The celeron should perform better and tualatins also run cooler.

He's right. The Celeron is the better choice. A 1.4Ghz PIII with 512KB of cache can be had for around $50 on ebay, but that's not really worth the price.
 
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I can vouch for the Celeron, as I use a 1.4GHz Tualatin in my computer, and it works just fine for my needs.
 
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The Celeron might not work, most Socket 370 boards don't support Tualatin cores.

I'd try it, and if it doesn't work, put in the other one.
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You can get a Tualatin adaptor off eBay for a few bucks though, and they work good. The good thing about the Celeron is it won't matter if he only has PC100 RAM.
 
Truekeeper

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What a great info you guys just provided me.

I'll go celeron then.

Thanks very much, all of you. 8)

Another thing:
The guy also want to purchase a usb 2.0 tv receiver for portable reasons but his mobo only has usb 1, so if i put a usb 2.0 pci card do you think the
usb 2.0 tv will perform ok, i mean i heard usb 2.0 tv receivers are cpu hungry.

What you think ?
 
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If the machine meets the system requirements, it will probably be fine. If its a bit laggy, try shutting down Windows Explorer in the task manager or something else. :p
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Hell yeah they were. I remember that they could overclock like crazy and STILL suck. They were real treasures, those Celerons.
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Huh? They were pretty much the same as the P3s once you OCed them... not like todays Celerons. Oh, here are some benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/02/17/benchmark_marathon/page23.html

Only up to the Celeron 1.3 on there though. EDIT: I was of course talking about the Tualatin Celerons... the Coppermine Celerons couldn't OC past 1.1GHz... more info: http://www.geek.com/procspec/intel/pentium3tualatincel.htm
 
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They had 256KB cache just like the older P3s.. if you could OC them on a 133MHz bus they were just as fast at the same clock speed. Some of the later tualatin P3s did have 512K L2... but we are comparing them to a p3 coppermine core, right?
 
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The adapters didn't work in some boards... same with the slocket adapters as well... but it wasn't just in Intels boards. I have a Supermicro board that won't take them and an old IBM system that doesn't either. I don't really think Intel did that on purpose... its just that some older boards were made before the Tualatin cores existed.
 
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Have a link to that information? I think your just jumping to conclusions... Powerleap was still selling them up until a little while ago, with a processor. They had a compatibility list too, with no information on anything like that... EDIT: They did have a different Voltage... maybe some BIOSs detected the processor and assumed you needed a new VRM?
 
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