Cyrix or Celeron?

[embj]

Hey all, I'm trying to do a few upgrades to an older computer that I have. I've got a computer that has a Slot 1 PII 300mhz in it now w/ 256mb ram. I decided to upgrade the memory in it last month and now I plan to upgrade the CPU. My question is, is the Via Cyrix 600mhz or the Celeron 733mhz better? I just bought a Cyrix 600mhz on eBay just to have it and I have had a spare Celeron setting around. I thought...hey, why not just by a converter and upgrade that computer.

The reason I ask is because I know Celerons suck...and yet another fine example here...Why NOT to buy a Celeron.

The Via has 128k L1 cache, 64k L2 cache, and is on a 100mhz FSB. The Celeron has 64k L1 cahce, 128k L2 cache, and is on a 66mhz FSB.

Thanks for the help.

[elmers]

Yeah well Cyrix sucks more.

[Dputiger]

You are HEAVILY confusing your Celeron's. The old P3-based Celeron was a much better chip (relative to the P3) than the P4 Celeron is. A 600 MHz Celeron will destroy a 733 MHz C3--the C3 is a piece of junk barely capable of powering a modern toaster.

[Lemon[H]ead]

the C3 is a piece of junk barely capable of powering a modern toaster.

hey now, you're underestimating the power of even semi-modern toasters...

[embj]

lmao! Well, I guess I can just resell the Cyrix. Now that I know a little bit more about them...I don't think I want one. Thanks for the replies.

[Dputiger]

You have to keep in mind, everything is relative. Even the current Celly 2.2, while destroyed by a modern P4 or AthlonXP (to say nothing of A64) would run circles around an old Pentium 3 500. Cellies are cheap, and they have their place--but if AMD's an option, Celeron generally shoudln't be.

[tmx468]

The price between AMD XP chips and Celerons should mean that Celerons are never considered.

I always laugh (on the inside) when seeing a cheap celeron machine sold to a customer, who is also buying a couple of games...

[Dputiger]

There isn't much (if any) of a price gap between the AthlonXP and the Celly, unless this is what you meant....

But yeah--its pretty damn sad just how hard those Celeron's get slaughtered.

[e980238]

I have first hand experience with both CPUs. I put together a C3 733 MHz a while back and man that thing was slower than my 400 MHz celeron. Then, when the mobo died, I found out that the cpu was soldered...thats right..f'in soldered into the mobo. Go with the crappy celerons over the c3 ANY day!

[skuz]

I've also seen Durons soldered to motherboards, so that's not a Cyrix only "feature". Last Cyrix I had was a P200+ running at 150 MHz (I think).