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Author Topic: Are Celeron's the new 486sx's of today?  (Read 3367 times)

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Are Celeron's the new 486sx's of today?
« on: February 09, 2004, 12:31:08 AM »
What's the deal with Intel Celerons?  Are they worthless in power for use in todays systems or more importantly for servers or webservers?   Or are they best used by little old ladies who do nothing but surf with AOL and write MS Word letters?


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Are Celeron's the new 486sx's of today?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2004, 08:36:44 AM »
Celerons have a smaller cache than other processors. They are less efficient, cheaper to produce and cheaper to buy. Unless you are into gaming or 3D animation or other applications that are CPU extensives, celerons can do a descent job.
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2004, 02:58:09 PM »
For someone that just wants a web box, a celeron would be fine.
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Are Celeron's the new 486sx's of today?
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2004, 03:31:09 PM »
I got the oddest sense of deja vu...
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2004, 03:42:31 PM »
Quote from: catwritr
I got the oddest sense of deja vu...


Vuja de, my friend.
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Are Celeron's the new 486sx's of today?
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2004, 04:40:18 PM »
If you want a cheap system and don't intend to Photoshop anything or run intense games, the by all means use a Celeron. It would make a fine word processing/web browsing machine.
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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2004, 01:16:01 PM »
Whenever I think of the Celeron processor, I think of the phrase, "What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?"
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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2004, 02:31:16 PM »
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Whenever I think of the Celeron processor, I think of the phrase, "What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?"


You're using a 286? Don't make me laugh. You're Windows boots up in what, a day and a half? /al
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Are Celeron's the new 486sx's of today?
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2004, 04:30:59 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2004, 09:07:59 PM »
I agree with TheJudge about a Celeron chip being the cheaper advantage for the average user but not intended for power use... you should trust me; the rest of these guys use Windows 3.1
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2004, 12:42:20 AM »
Thanks all...   I think I'll get an Athlon XP processor system, definitely will avoid Celeron based systems...



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« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2004, 02:29:53 AM »
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