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Intel Celeron 3.46 ghz
Lakersfan:
Thanks Kangum! I'll have a look...
robot8319:
it seems their is so much misinformation going around these days its just sad..
the new celerons are faster than the old P4 northwoods...and thats saying something for a celeron..
my 3.2ghz celeron finish's Super pi 1m the same exact time as my northwood p4 3.2ghz..
basically the new celerons are just rebadged highend pentium 4's if anything..
also since the p4 are slow by todays standards it isnt saying much..
if it was me i would go with a 4000+ am2 its only $50.and its faster than the fastest pentium 4 at 3.8ghz....
Lakersfan:
Man, I really didn't think it would be this confusing. I guess in the end, it'll all come down to who you choose to believe and how much money you want to spend.
:dunno
genesim:
For the same amount of money you can get dual core which I know doesn't do squat for MAME, but it does run the games fine.
For the same price as the Celeron, you get more bang for your buck.
I would at least stick with a Pentium. Celeron SUCKS! Believe me, I had a few.
Tiger-Heli:
Listen to Haze and Robot8319.
Also see http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/16/cpu_charts_2007/page17.html (Quake, but gives you an idea), and http://images.tomshardware.com/2007/07/16/cpu_charts_2007/cpu_table_intel_big.png
Core2Duo is the fastest available right now, plus overclocks extremely well.
A64 X2 Dual Core is almost as fast and about $50-$100 cheaper.
Celeron is the same core as Pentium 4 (Prescott) (usually) and should perform about the same, i.e. not very well compared to other offerings by today's standards.