tincan

celeron processers are cheap. Why is this? are they bad performers with lots of hang ups? what is you opionions?

andy faith

They dont have a maths processing chip or something like that so the performance is fairly bad for anything other than word processing, surfing the web and other low power tasks.

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They are cheap because they are budget processors, they dont perform as well as the higher priced Pentium's or Core 2 Duo's.

Untrue, if you're comparing a Celeron (D) to a Pentium (4), then the only differences that make it a worse performer is it's very low amount of cache, and slow FSB, it also didnt have HT.

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AdmnPower

they are budget processors with a lot less cache than higher end processors. they are pretty much built a lot cheaper than the higher end processors. they typically don't perform very well.

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AdmnPower

wow in the time i typed my post you to beat me to it, sorry for being redundant

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patrickv

I have a Celeron processor and it SUCKS big time, while my ram makes up for it, i have 1GB + 512MB ram

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andy faith

I would advise getting a core 2 duo or atleast a P4. What celeron is it? You should be able to get a processor that fits in your board. Though you might not want to of course.

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patrickv

my mobo does not support dual cpus, my mobo is LGA 775 and that celeron is @ 2.8ghz

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