Celeron and a P4

[Satan666]

Whats the difference between a intel celeron 2.7ghz 533 Front side bus and a intel Pentium 4 2.7ghz 533 Front side bus???

 

[Shumway]

The celeron has a smaller cache and dosen't have Hyper Threading,I think there's something else but i'm not too sure

 

[Satan666]

i know that but my mobo wont take ht

 

[Nitestick]

the difference is a celeron is a budget processor. it has been stripped down and will not perform like the p4. the cpu's instructions have been inhibited and like shumway said they have a much smaller L2 cache

 

[Hacp]

ok heres a comparison. A 3.06 GHZ celeron D processor performs around the speed of a 2.4-2.6 GHZ pentium. Sometimes lower for applications where l2 cache is important.

 

[Lonewolf5460]

Didn't they have P4s without HT find one of those.

 

[Hacp]

I don't think his mobo supports HT

 

[woot7800GT]

P4s without ht also suck, my old comp has one.

 

[Lonewolf5460]

They do does HT affect preformance that much? I never really read up on it.

 

[m3trj]

Yeah HT seems to make a noticable difference with multitasking and whatnot. If you can't use a HT processor then there's no point getting one though.