Celerons & Gaming

[Darkfire001]

Hey guys.

I'm trying to throw together some older components of mine to create another gaming system for older games for the most part IE: DX8 and on down.

Even with the great prices on new Intel CPU's right now, Celerons are looking so damn cheap

Given as how I just need to run DX8 and on down games, do Celerons have the horse power needed?

 

[mpjesse]

Yes, but I'd get 3+ Ghz Celery's if i were you. Personally, if u really wanna go the intel route, i'd get a Pentium D 805. They're floating around $100 now.

 

[Bazukaz]

Hi,
Since you plan to play older games , the celeron is probably OK. For example , i have a relatively old Celeron D 325 and radeon 9600XT system and it runs Oblivion at a reasonable resolution and frame rates , though lags a bit on intense scenes.
Graphics card is probably more inportant for games than CPU.
You must go for celeron D(not sure if prior models are still available) , because it has more cache(older models had only 128K).

Regards,
Lukas.

 

[Gary_Busey]

It also depends on what socket you have. For a socket 478, NewEgg has Pentium 4 3.0E's for $100, which are much better than Celerons.

 

[Darkfire001]

I'd drop the cash on a D 805 for sure if the Motherboard would support it however the ASUS P5GD2 (which I'm getting the CPU for) doesn't support Dual Core.

I'm debating between the

Intel Pentium 4 506 2.66GHz 533MHz 1MB LGA775 CPU, Retail for $80

Intel Celeron D 352 3.2GHz 533MHz 512K LGA775 CPU, Retail for $55

:| Part of me says $25 more for a Pentium aint bad. But the Celeron D has a higher clock obviously, and I haven't heard much about the 506 Pentiums.


NVM it appears Tigerdirect has a Pentium 4 506 for $49.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1532887&CatId=0

Looks like a great deal, I think I'm going to jump on it pending any horrible news about that processor

 

[Gary_Busey]

Here's some info that might help:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/celeron-d.html

http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=53520

http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=56606

I'd go with the P4.

 

[K8MAN]

My mom's celeron system makes me cry when I go on it. The most basic tasks will eat up 50-100% of the cpu and bog everything down. I would hunt for a cheap 754 setup or a 805 setup as mpjesse suggested.

 

[Darkfire001]

Okay, I ended up grabbing the Pentium 2.66ghz from TigerDirect for $50 and a thermaltake fan for $20

 

[K8MAN]

Okay, I ended up grabbing the Pentium 2.66ghz from TigerDirect for $50 and a thermaltake fan for $20

You wont regret it vs some crappy celly.

 

[4Aces]

Does Oil and Water say anything to you? Celerons are mostly meant for business machines and internet stations, not much use for anything else. Any system I build to sell won't include any sempron, duron or celeron they just don't preform anywhere close to a real cpu. The few bits of cash you'll save will be speant on other components to compensate for the cpu. When you compile a system out of spare parts laying around it's always sketchy so why put another limiting factor in the mix.

 

[NaDa]

Intel Pentium 4 506 2.66GHz = 20x133FSB Thats a beautifull overclocker. Any overclocker friendly board (DFI, Asus, Abit, MSI, Gigabyte...) with a proper chipset (865PE, 875P, 945P, 9*5X - I believe those chipsets can run at 300FSB and some beyond) can run that chip 3.5-4 GHz. The Celeron D 2.66 can probably overclock the same.
The power that the 805D needs puts most boards on fire. You would probably need a 955X, 975X or the 965 chipset board, those usualy have an abundance of power regulators and solid capacitors.

 

[joefriday]

I'd drop the cash on a D 805 for sure if the Motherboard would support it however the ASUS P5GD2 (which I'm getting the CPU for) doesn't support Dual Core.

I'm debating between the

Intel Pentium 4 506 2.66GHz 533MHz 1MB LGA775 CPU, Retail for $80

Intel Celeron D 352 3.2GHz 533MHz 512K LGA775 CPU, Retail for $55

:| Part of me says $25 more for a Pentium aint bad. But the Celeron D has a higher clock obviously, and I haven't heard much about the 506 Pentiums.


NVM it appears Tigerdirect has a Pentium 4 506 for $49.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1532887&CatId=0

Looks like a great deal, I think I'm going to jump on it pending any horrible news about that processor

Awsome price on that 506! Where did you see a Celeron D 352 for $55? I want to buy one.

 

[Darkfire001]

506 is $49.97 at TigerDirect.com and the Celeron 4 532 is about $55 for me at my distributor (I run an Sell Computer Hardware).Price at newegg is quite a bit higher, $80 I think.