Is a 1.7ghz celeron faster than a 700mhz P3? (1 Viewer)

[Brian Price]

Currently have a P3 processor on a Dell that is a few years old. I have seen ads recently which tout Celerons at 1.7 or 2 ghz for $399. Would these models actually be faster than by P3 700mhz? I do a lot of gaming and net surfing. Would the difference be noticeable? I have win98 and I was thinking of upgrading to WinXP which is $100 so I'm thinking I may be better off just buying one of the celerons. I don't need a monitor, etc. I could transfer my cd burner, dvd drive, Nvidia card, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Brian

 

[Gerald LaFrance]

Hi Brian do you plan to use the motherboard too or get a new one?? The price sounds awfully HIGH for those celerons I just bought a P4 2.4 ghz for $190 at googlegear heres the link http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/Home.jsp
your probally gonna have to upgrade case, motherboard,processor and memory. I just spent $492 getting those same items and it is a killer setup and at a reasonable price as I intend to use the old cd rom and hard drive, dvd drive!!
you may not have to go that far of an upgrade but I would consider it. and on googlegear they had the celeron 2.0 ghz $90.00 but they only run at 400 mhz bus speed and 128 kb cache and there socket 478. your MB I believe is a socket 370 or Slot 1 you would have to look in your motherboard book to find out for sure. just my 2 cents!! LTR

 

[Brian E]

Hi Brian do you plan to use the motherboard too or get a new one?? The price sounds awfully HIGH for those celerons

I'm pretty sure he's talking about a complete system, not just a CPU.

Brian, can you post the specs of what you're looking at? A $300-$400 system isn't going to have much in the way of a graphics card if you're a big gamer.

 

[Andre F]

I'd agree with Brian, might want to save up more money and getting something with more horsepower...