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[patman174]

Everyone I ran across something very interesting this morning. I was browsing processors to build me a computer and I found 64 bit Celeron D's. I like the 32 bit ones because its basically a replica of the Pentium 4's since it has the Prescott core and same FSB. The 64 bit version is Socket T or LGA 775. This is new to me and was wanting to find out more information on them. If anyone knows anymore about these processors, I would love to know everything I can get my hands on.

[clarky3429]

i own one, lol...

they are never as good as the P4's (as this one is 256k L2 cache and my 775 P4 is 1MB), and the FSB IS LOWER than the 775 P4, but for something that doesnt require REALLY intensive tasks it is good (i use it in my server coz all it does it share files, printer and a website and does my downloads. it all depends on what you want to use it for.

[RedInferno]

Celerons are more of an alternative which is cheaper. like clary said, the FSB is lower and are not as good for raw processing power. They ARE considerably cheaper, and yet till pretty high qualtiy. What are you planning to do?

[tntoak]

I'd stay away from any Intel dual-core proc until they stop connecting them through the Front Side Bus. Even the Celeron D is basically two Celeron Cores glued together, just as the Pentium D is two Pentium Cores. For the forseeable future, AMD has the performance lead with dual core procs, because their cores communicate on the chip itself instead of routing the signals out to the FSB and back to the other core.

[patman174]

Ummm, Celeron D's are not dual core. Its just a new and improved Celeron. Only dual core processor i know of from Intel is the Pentium D.

[Neon]

Have you bought it yet patrick?

What board did you get?

[patman174]

No, I havent bought it yet. My friend is buying an amp from me and I am going to use that money to buy all the parts for this computer. I am getting a SATA 160 gig Western Digital Hardrive, Elite Socket T LGA 775 Motherboard, 512 DDR 400 Memory to start. Geforce 4000 128 meg video card and 2.8 Celeron D 64 Bit Processor. Board as Intergrated Lan, Graphics and Sound.

[Neon]

Cool, be sure to provide us some screenies of your system running and also let me do a server on there, dual boot it by all means