Which Beast Of a Processor's Better

[Jon-E-Durex]

Hi,

Just building an old pc out of parts from work, i've got 256 of ramm, but I have the option of either

a. celeron 433

or

b. Pentium 2, 350

I already tested the celeron and it can cope with xp fine, but wanted to know if i'd get better performance with the pentium 2. Please let me know ... I've got nothing better to do tonight ...

[oralpain]

In all likelyhood the celeron will be better.

[Jon-E-Durex]

hi, thanks for responding, didn't think anyone would bother reply over something that small, just really want to use it as a linux box to code from.

think i argee, i'm probably going to go with the celeron, i did read that the caching of them wasn't great, but i wouldn't think it would make that much difference between 350 and 433. Unless anyone suggest any differently, i'll go celeron

[oralpain]

P2s had a big, but of die (and hence slow) cache. One of those celerons is not much slower clock for clock (as it has an on-die cache) and it's clocked much higher.

The P3 was reasonably large improvement on the P2, thats why many people will go for a slower clocked P3 than a celeron. It's a different story with the P2s though.

[Firelord]

Try em out and see whats best with the difference in clock speed I doubt theres much in it