Suggestion on a CPU upgrade

[john.smith]

I have an ASUS P4PE with PC2700 ddr ram. I want to upgrade my CPU, this
will probably be my last cpu upgrade before I buy a new system in like
two-three years which by then will hopefully be a 64 bit intel. My
motherboard only supports 533 FSB.

I have the P4 Celeron 1.7 Ghz now. I am thinking about upgrading to the
new Celeron D 2.66 Ghz because it seems highly overclockable and cheap
(http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/celeron-d_7.html). But
considering this is my last upgrade maybe I should get something faster
like the Intel® Pentium® 4 - 2.8B-GHz @ 533Mhz w/ 512k (the 3.0B is like
$100 more expensive which I don't think is worth it). But again between
the Celeron D annd 2.8B the price difference is again ~$100, is there a
significant gain? How significant is the gain when the Celeron is
overclocked? FPS in games is what I care about.

Also if I get the Celeron D, will it overclock as good as xbitlabs did
it considering I have PC2700 ram? I will need to shell out $50 for a
ZALMAN CPU fan as well.

 

[Chris Stolworthy]

I have an ASUS P4PE with PC2700 ddr ram. I want to upgrade my CPU, this
will probably be my last cpu upgrade before I buy a new system in like
two-three years which by then will hopefully be a 64 bit intel. My
motherboard only supports 533 FSB.

I have the P4 Celeron 1.7 Ghz now. I am thinking about upgrading to the
new Celeron D 2.66 Ghz because it seems highly overclockable and cheap
(http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/celeron-d_7.html). But
considering this is my last upgrade maybe I should get something faster
like the Intel® Pentium® 4 - 2.8B-GHz @ 533Mhz w/ 512k (the 3.0B is like
$100 more expensive which I don't think is worth it). But again between
the Celeron D annd 2.8B the price difference is again ~$100, is there a
significant gain? How significant is the gain when the Celeron is
overclocked? FPS in games is what I care about.

Also if I get the Celeron D, will it overclock as good as xbitlabs did
it considering I have PC2700 ram? I will need to shell out $50 for a
ZALMAN CPU fan as well.

If you can go for the P4, celeron processors run with less cache, therefore
they run slower. Celeron processors are the budget processors of the p4
line. You will see significant increases in speed in most ALL aspects with
a p4. Just me but I would rather have a processor that runs as fast as a
overclocked celeron, at stock speeds...