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OT: P4 1.5Ghz vs Celeron 2.0Ghz
drunkatuw:
I replaced my athlon T-bird 1.4 (overclocked to 1.5) with the $199 black friday emachine special which I believe was a celeron D 2.6ghz and the difference is day and night, the new machine is a ton faster and games which were choppy and annoying now play very smoothly. My old athlon also had I believe a 133mhz fsb vs. the celeron's 266, and DDR ram vs. SDRAM, so there were many differences, so I can't contribute the performance increase only to the CPU, but games are definitely faster now.
Matt Berry:
Cpu wise in some aspects the celeron 2.6 out performs the Amd 1.4 ghz. As for a night and day difference I don't think it has much to do with the processor, it probably stems more from the different video card, memory, motherboard and hard drive.
This may not be a popular view, but when building for speed and stability the cpu should be your last concearn. In order of importance.
1. Power Supply - Key for stability
2. Memory - Everything uses memory, buy quality low latancy
3. Hard Drive - Needs cooling - Fast hard drive = faster system (Try a Raptor)
4. Motherboard - A bad design will slow your system dramaticly
5. Video card (not as important to Mame)
6. Cpu - if you ignored the first items your system may be running slower then you expect.
On another note, Operating System also plays a huge factor in speed. If your computer was cluttered with junk then a new computer would seem faster. Xp also runs slower then 98 untill you tweak it.
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