Celeron or pentium 4

[nestleomega]

How does a Intel Celeron D 1.8ghz compare to
Intel Pentium 4ghz Northwood(quite old one) ?
My P4 1.8 has been serving me well since 2003.
Is an upgrade to this Celeron 1.8 is good since
someone is offering me a cheap price for it?
Or is it better to spend it on upgrade of current 768MB ram?

 

[waleedhk]

why not buy a cheap core2duo like e4300...in q1 2008 i read somewhere that pentium 4 and pentium d will be discontinued.

 

[jt001]

a 4ghz northwood would completely destroy the celeron, I'm not sure I completely understand the question though I think you may be mixed up on the numbers.

Also as the other poster said if you can get a core2 duo definitely do so. You can get an E4300 and an asrock board (dual vsta) that supports both ddr and ddr2, as well as agp and pci-e, for under $180 for both, and that would walk all over either of the processors you mention.

 

[nestleomega]

Sorry, it's a Pentium 4 1.8ghz.......
I dont think i need C2D rite now..
I dont play PC games but just surt the NEt.

 

[TStedel]

Why do you need a better processor at all? You won't even notice the change between processors if you're just surfing the net.

I mean, I could surf the net on a Pentium 3 if I wanted to.

Ah! Perhaps you just want the added horsepower of a new processor, which is is of course fine. Two cores as opposed to one will offer you some multitasking headroom

 

[TStedel]

Also, what are you getting this Celeron for? I am looking at some sites and Celerons clocked that low might go for as much as 20$. Are you sure you're getting a good deal?

The Celeron WOULD be a slight upgrade from your current configuration.

 

[phase_22]

How does a Intel Celeron D 1.8ghz compare to
Intel Pentium 4ghz Northwood(quite old one) ?
My P4 1.8 has been serving me well since 2003.
Is an upgrade to this Celeron 1.8 is good since
someone is offering me a cheap price for it?
Or is it better to spend it on upgrade of current 768MB ram?

If your MoBo socket is LGA 775, I would look into the Celeron D Cedar Mill's with 512 KB L2 cache.

I dont play PC games but just surt the NEt.

*I think you'll be fine with 768 MB of RAM, I got by with 386 MB RAM for a few years (Monitor task manager to see if you really need more RAM).*

*Unless you are using Vista.* 8O

 

[SasparillaMayonase]

Just get the Celeron and upgrade to Vista Premium. No need for RAM--just a big swap file.