Perhaps you can get a Semprom with a smaller clock but a higher FSB. I have an AMD Semprom 2400+ with 400 Mhz FSB, 1 GB of Ram and I'm very happy with it. It plays all the games I want and I can work in it very smoothly. I recently upgrade to 1 GB of Ram, used to be 512 Mb and the difference is amazing compared to 256, specially compile speeds. So, unless you might want to upgrade you Celeron to a P4, assuming the motherboard will take both, I'd go with Semprom, I believe it's more cost-effective.
2005/10/2, Folken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0100, Dave S wrote: > > > The GHz sound impressive but I know neither chip is a very powerful, I > > believe they 'water down' the internals !. I cant find anywhere a > > comparison between my PIII & these two possibilitys. > > I found a comparision between (almost) your target cpus: > http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=61 > > (note the celeron is actually the 2.8 GHz Model) > > > My PIII is old technology, these two are newer technology with faster > > clock speeds but engineered to a price, would the speed increase be > > noticeable ? Any comments ? > > The 512 MB Ram will defently noticeable when you work with KDE. KDE is > very ram hungry and I wouldn't recommend to run it with less than 512. > (Although speed / memory consumption seem to have improved miles with > the latest versions of kde) > > > Intel Celeron 2.4GHz 128K 400MHz Socket 478 CPU OEM - 512MB RAM > > AMD Sempron 2800+ 2.0GHz (333FSB) 256K Cache Socket A OEM - 512 MB RAM > > As to the processors, I'd go for the Sempron. Celerons are IMO castraded > pentiums and really not great for compiler runs. The halved L1 cache > really hits on the performance in general. Since you are on a contrained > budget I'd even more strongley urge you to amd, since they usually give > you more performance for the buck. > > (That being said.. i'm no fan of intel. Therefore take this with a grain > of salt.) > > Oh btw.. you may ignore GHz numbers now.. they are no longer an > indicator of how "fast" processors are. > > - Folken > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
