Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

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14-10-2009, 10:54 AM
watforddude

Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

Got it wrong, its a E5200

Just wondering becuase there is one in the for sale section and i want to know its a worthwhile upgrade

- General preformace

- How much better it will be in gaming compeard to the E1400

- Worthwhile upgrade for 35 pounds?
14-10-2009, 01:23 PM
simonw

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

At stock settings, the E5200 already has a faster clock speed of an extra 500Mhz, and more L2 cache, so this will make a difference.

Have a look at some benchmarks (Anandtech has this page, no E1400 listed, so I've used the E1500 vs E5200 for reference), and check for yourself if it is worth the upgrade.

Just from a personal point of view, I probably would not upgrade from a dual-core to another dual-core, it would have to be quad-core for me.
14-10-2009, 02:15 PM
watforddude

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

There looks to be a serious difference in frame rates and mine is even lower than a E1500 so a bigger difference will be noticed in some places over 30+fps difference.
14-10-2009, 06:15 PM
roorooroo

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

Definitely see the difference in most apps and games...well worth a 35 quid upgrade but of course if you can afford to a quad upgrade would be even nicer.
14-10-2009, 06:24 PM
CAT-THE-FIFTH

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

I would first check that your motherboard can take an E5300 as it is one of the newer 45nm processors unlike the E1400 which is a 65nm one.
14-10-2009, 07:07 PM
smargh

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

Note that the E5200 doesn't support hardware-assisted virtualisation, i.e. speedier VMWare, and XP Mode on Windows 7.

That aside, the E5200 is a stonking CPU. I use one in my secondary PC, and my work PC has one and it's always very responsive indeed.
15-10-2009, 03:53 AM
rushholme

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

You're guaranteed a safe 24/7 overclock of about 700mhz+ with a E5200.
15-10-2009, 01:42 PM
nibbler

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

I'm liking the blatant lying in the rig upload there watforddude :P
15-10-2009, 01:59 PM
watforddude

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

No lies, all true ;)
15-10-2009, 05:30 PM
kingpotnoodle

Re: Going from Celeron E1400 to E5300, Worth it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by nibbler

I'm liking the blatant lying in the rig upload there watforddude :P

Watford in Buckinghamshire is obviously a different Watford where everything is uber-1337.

It's probably worth the upgrade, but overclock it to 3GHz+ - probably you can just raise the FSB to 266 for 3.33GHz, most motherboards would be fine with that as they'd support the 1066 FSB chips anyway and it's a standard multiplier. You may need a small voltage bump, but not much and if you're lucky it will run stable like that with speedstep on as well so you don't have to waste juice.