[wizardofwindows]

a friend ask me is a genuine P2-400mhz faster than a celeron 400?im not sure anyone know? thxz in advance.

[Martin Zugec]

Of course regular pentium is faster then celeron...

[Xanin]

'tis indeed faster. They tend to use celerons in laptops as far as I know. Hmm...I always get reminded of a certain vegetable when someone says 'celeron'.....

[mjc]

timeless, on Jul 27 2005, 10:07 AM, said:

a friend ask me is a genuine P2-400mhz faster than a celeron 400?im not sure anyone know? thxz in advance.
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A Celeron 400 is a P2 400 with less L2 cache, thus it can only be slower.

[interminded]

I read a test a couple of years ago, where it stated that the difference between them in speed is in reality about 5 %.

Depends off course on some other factors, but 5 % isn't really that much.

[Zxian]

interminded, on Jul 27 2005, 07:48 AM, said:

I read a test a couple of years ago, where it stated that the difference between them in speed is in reality about 5 %.

Depends off course on some other factors, but 5 % isn't really that much.
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That really depends on what kind of applications you're doing. With a lot of number crunching, large caches help a lot, since you're not always running to memory or the hard drive for more information. Man I love my Pentium-M (1MB L2) CPU...

[Nerwin]

Yes 100% Faster than a celeron, Any cpu is faster than a celeron Belive me i know

[Zxian]

computerMan, on Jul 27 2005, 10:40 AM, said:

Yes 100% Faster than a celeron, Any cpu is faster than a celeron Belive me i know
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Nope... Celerons are faster than the 286...

And the new Celeron D's aren't that bad actually. For an entry level CPU they're pretty decent.

[Nerwin]

But a p4 is faster than celeron am i right?

This post has been edited by computerMan: 27 July 2005 - 12:47 PM

[Zxian]

Well... Hz for Hz, yes...the P4 is faster than Celeron. This is because the Celeron typically has a smaller cache than the P4.

[Technoguy]

heh zxian i have heard that new celeron d's have quite a large amount of cache just a bit slower than P4.btw what's a l2 cache?

This post has been edited by Technoguy: 28 July 2005 - 09:42 AM

[Agi]

if I remember correctly Pentium-2 has half-speed cache, and although the celeron has less cache it runs full-speed, so the performance difference is negligable.

[Zxian]

Technoguy, on Jul 28 2005, 07:35 AM, said:

heh zxian i have heard that new celeron d's have quite a large amount of cache just a bit slower than P4.btw what's a l2 cache?
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The new Celeron D's are still going to be slower than their comparatively clocked P4 counterparts, but they are going to get a boost in L2 cache sizes.


For a little more explanation on L2 caches - Link

It's amazing what a Google search can bring up.

[Technoguy]

well yeah for same mhz p4 is gonna burn celeron as nethin