I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
reason, or are they okay?
What's the deal?

Thanks

"nick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
> wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
> reason, or are they okay?
> What's the deal?
>
> Thanks
>

There is nothing wrong with a Celeron...
but in general you get a better value using an AMD cpu

The Celeron performance has been limited by the relatively small level 2 cache, e.g. at one time the Celeron had 128 KB L2 cache compared to the Pentium 4 512 KB L2 cache. The difference is not so pronounced these days, e.g. the Celeron in my laptop computer has 1 MB L2 cache.

nick wrote:
>
> I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
> wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
> reason, or are they okay?
> What's the deal?
>
> Thanks

--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

nick wrote:
> I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
> wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
> reason, or are they okay?
> What's the deal?
>
> Thanks


Celerons have less performance, but they have 3 advantages. 1) They're
cheaper. 2) They run cooler 3) Because of bus speed limitations, some
boards will accept a faster celeron than they will a p3.


There are certian things a celeron cannot do. Like run in pairs (Except
with a custom motherboard, and there's only a handful of those).

A true p3 will beat a similar p3-based celeron. As will a p4, beat a
similar p4-based celeron.

On 3 Jun 2006 06:51:43 -0700, "nick" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I'm in the market for a linux pc. My question is, is there anything
>wrong with Celeron processors? Should Celeron be avoided for some
>reason, or are they okay?
>What's the deal?
>
>Thanks

Linux not really an issue here, as always you are just
buying a piece of equipment and have to decide if the
performance/price is right or if you wanted to pay more for
a higher performing CPU. A Celeron is fine for most basic
tasks, even more advanced tasks these days so long as there
is no realtime performance need.