Celeron vs pentium 4

[Peter]

Dell has a Intel Celeron D Processor 325 (2.53 GHz, 533 FSB) and I
wanted to know how this would compare to a 1.7ghz pentium 4 processor?
I know the celeron only has 256k cache vs the normal 1 gig cache of
newer pentium 4 so my question.

tia,
pete

 

[Jonny]

Also important in the comparison equation are the FSB speed of the former
Pentium, and its onboard cache size.

 

[Jim]

What do you plan to use the Dell PC for (General Applications, Games, Photo
Editing, Etc.)?

Jim

 

[Peter]

I'm trying to teach myself Win2003 Server but I would like to plug in a
cheap pci card with s-video so I can play avi videos on my tv. I
currently have a used hp pavilion celeron 700mhz 128meg ram which will
run Win2003 Server but has a hard time with avi videos. I don't plan
on using this for games, photos, editing, not even general apps just
getting it so I have a 2nd computer to network to my hp.

-Pete

 

[John R Weiss]

Dell has a Intel Celeron D Processor 325 (2.53 GHz, 533 FSB) and I
wanted to know how this would compare to a 1.7ghz pentium 4 processor?
I know the celeron only has 256k cache vs the normal 1 gig cache of
newer pentium 4 so my question.

For most home apps a Celeron will perform about the same as a P4 of the same
clock speed. While there may be differences in benchmarks, many of the
differences will not be perceivable.

Since the Celeron in question has a 50% higher clock speed, it will likely
perform better than the cited P4.

 

[Jim]

What John said is true, either processor will handle Windows 2003 server
providing that all other factors are the same or nearly so.
Same amount of memory (1GB Ram should do, 512MB works), same hard drive
specs (Drive speed being the most important) and same Video Card. The low
end video card you mentioned might be a weak spot.

However the Celeron runs at 50% better than the clock speed of the Pentium
4, a P4 at the same speed as the Celeron would easily outperform the Celeron
at things like streaming video. But the P4 you mentioned is (assuming it
supports a 533Mhz FSB) and even with the 1MB cache may not handle the video
any better and maybe not as good as the faster Celeron.

I'm going to look at some benchmarks for these two processors and see what
if any advantage the P4 has (especially in Video) and will report back later
today if at all possible.

PS: If you know how to administer Windows XP Pro fairly well, then you have
the basics for 2003 server, both use NT based technology.

Jim

 

[Jim]

Peter,

Based on Tom's Hardware Guide CPU benchmarks:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2004.html
it would appear that the Celeron is about 20% faster at streaming video
(Mpeg) than the slower P4.
On other applications (MS Word, Excel and 2003 Server) my guess is the
Celeron would be the better choice also.
Now if the price of the slower P4 is considerable less expensive than the
Celeron based system that another story.

Jim