Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI -------------------------------------------- Vishwanath V writes:
Well,
If u can burn u're CD while listen to music and also convert mpeg to Divx and surfing the NET too,u
can call a celeron a processor.
On My Athlon 1800+ machine thses tasks r trivial.
So may be u shud try all these and then rethink.
So please start using u're CPU cycles ;)
Visu
AFAIK there will be disk I/O / bus contention. You are
* reading data (mpeg to divx) from HDD.
* reading data (for writing to CD) from HDD.
* writing to browser cache while surfing.
mpeg to divx will be the only one which will take up quite a lot of CPU
cycles. Here the celeron which has less cache than Athlon will take a
beating. But surfing is mainly network intensive and not CPU intensive.
Also for CD writing only making the iso image while writing onto disk takes
some CPU cycles (but not much). I don't see why the last two factors should
depend much on the CPU.
All in all I think both celeron and Athlon are both good value for money.
but Athlon definitely has the edge.
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