Even an older socket ver of a P is better then newer Celerons?
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Browse All TopicsHave an issue where i have to replace a mother board on and dell. The connectors for the power/rest and USB are not standard and wont fit the new replacment mobo.
I elected to move the system over to a new case that has standard connectors.
OLD CPU would be a P 4 3Ghz socket 478.
NEW would be Celeron D 356 3.33GHZ Socket 775.
Would there be any performance change? For good or for Bad?
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that celeron cpu is a cedar mill processor and as such has Exactly the same cache as the northwood cpu, it is actually a better processor than the norhtwood chip you had. The celeron is just a cache limited prescott p4 that was made on a smaller die.The prescott has 2mb of level 2 cache while the ceder mill celeron has 512k Exactly the same 512k that a northwood cpu had.
So in real terms, you will see an advantage over your previous cpu. Albeit small but indeed a performance gain.
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Check out the specs. You will be surprised. I know I was.
here a cpu compare chart; only up to Celeron 2.8; but it ain't so bad ...
http://www23.tomshardware.
Your older P4 would still be faster than the Celeron D you're looking at. That Pentium 4 has 512K L2 cache and an 800 Mhz FSB, while the Celeron has a 256K L2 cache and a 533 Mhz FSB. The P4 can therefore get instructions and data faster from memory, and process it faster because it can keep a larger amount of data/instructions in its pipeline.
http://www.pcstats.com/art
http://compare.intel.com/p
You're going to take a noticeable performance hit, with the faster clock speed not making up for the other differences.
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by: PUNKYPosted on 2007-10-31 at 13:15:51ID: 20188741
Cerelon is piece of garbage! it can not be compared at all though.