Pentum vs celeron

[slimcan]

What is a better choice, A pentium 1.4GHZ or a celeron2.4GHZ chip? Is there more to a chip then just speed?

Pentium, the celeron is designed for the work enviroment.

Pentuim are designed for preformance

[tgxiii]

Yes, there's more to it than just speed. The Pentium has a bigger cache than the Celeron, so it performs better.

Another example of when speed isn't everything is the case of AMD. The slower-clocked AMD processors perform just as well as the Intels.

[tony_j15]

There is way more to a chip than just speed. Other big factors are bus speed and L2 cache. Given enough of a clock speed advantage, the Cellie can overcome a Pentium, but Pentium is still the better option.

edit: tgx, we said the same thing at the same time, lol.

[slimcan]

ok so maybe thats why my dads new dell celeron 2.4, 126ram is much slower then my pentiuum 1.5, 256ram computor. But I was thinking to get a bigger ram for the celeron computor. In conclusion I should have gotten a better chip. Should have asked before I bought this for him. You think a ram upgrade will bring me up to par with the pentium 1.5> Belive me I see a big difference in speed between the 2 computors.

[slimcan]

OH, so if I should get ram must I buy it from dell? It's a Dell inspiron 1100. And I like to add that I have defraged, and cleaned the computor with the computor maintenace system.

[crossedup]

Would definately get another stick for that celery rig, 126 not going to cut with todays hardware. Not enough RAM and o/s uses swap file on HD which slows you down even more.

You dont have to buy from dell and it will probably cost you more if you do.

Try http://www.crucial.com/index.asp cant go wrong with thiers

[slimcan]

OK just bought 512mb of ram. What is ment by shared ddrram? Seems only the 1100 dell uses that type. Hope this gets it up to the pentium speed or close.

[demon_wolf]

The Pentium is always going to perform better than the Celeron, mainly due to the higher cache.

Also, the Pentium runs standard on a higher FSB 400, 533, or 800 where the Celeron is still on the 400 FSB.

I think its about time Intel did something to the Celerons. When they where first released they were basically a Pentum running half the cache. Now......even the Celeron 2.8 is still running only 128k, where as the Pentium has increased several times.

Come on Intel....bump those Celerons cache up to 256k.....or let them die with their 128k.

Oh and upgrading your memory will diffinately help.

[The Terk]

Originally posted by slimcan
OK just bought 512mb of ram. What is ment by shared ddrram? Seems only the 1100 dell uses that type. Hope this gets it up to the pentium speed or close.

usually shared ram means its shared between the video and system memory (for laptops at least) because they have the integrated cards into the mobo(some are makin actual cards now YAY for alienware) but yea, also, go by the dell forums and make sure your lappy can fit that much memory in 1 slot... they should be able to help ya out there