CPU Upgrade ??

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arrowshooter

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I am thinking about upgrading my Celeron to a Pentium 4. My current CPU is a Celeron 340 which is 2.93 ghz with a 533 buss and 256 cache. I am considering upgrading to a Pentium 4 3.4 ghz with a 800 bus and 1,000 cache which my board will handle.

Here is my question: Will I notice any difference with a "faster" CPU? I am not a gamer. I write letters, do spread sheets, go online, ect. Nothing big. Just figured since my MB could handle it, I would get one. Thanks.
 
To answear the question you wouldn't notice any differnce if you replaced your cpu with a 2.0GHz CPU. But the Pentium chip would perform better then your current CPU. The Pentium chips are faster the their Celeron counter parts of the same clock speed.
 
A cheap Dual-Core Intel Celeron E1200 (1.6 gigahertz) Socket LGA 775 processor is only about $62 right now with a third party heatsink.

But if I were you and doing a budget upgrade I would go for a Socket AM2 Athlon 5000 Brisbane (2.6 gigahertz) Dual-Core. It is only only $56 at NewEgg.

Edit: Of course upgrading to either of the above processors I mentioned would also include buying a new motherboard and DDR2 RAM.
 
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What socket does your current motherboard have? If it's LGA775, there is a chance that you can get a Core2/Pentium dual-core/Celeron dual-core for a replacement. Those would give you significant performance gains, even at their much lower clockspeeds.

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I am not a gamer. I write letters, do spread sheets, go online, ect. Nothing big. Just figured since my MB could handle it, I would get one. Thanks.
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, so I can't really see why you would upgrade... your CPU is certainly sufficient for those tasks. I wouldn't upgrade "just for the sake of it".
 
hackapelite said:
What socket does your current motherboard have? If it's LGA775, there is a chance that you can get a Core2/Pentium dual-core/Celeron dual-core for a replacement. Those would give you significant performance gains, even at their much lower clockspeeds.

But,, so I can't really see why you would upgrade... your CPU is certainly sufficient for those tasks. I wouldn't upgrade "just for the sake of it".
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It's a socket 478.

The need to tinker has me looking at this "just for the sake of it".

Thanks, you've all given me plenty of reason to skip it.
 
The need to tinker has me looking at this "just for the sake of it".
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If that's the case... I've upgraded and built computers, and I can tell you that building a whole new computer is so much more pleasurable in so many more ways than a measley CPU upgrade ;)
 
SSMUFF said:
I am going to say no. You could safely OC that cpu and have the same speed for free.
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nope,a P4 would kill the Celly,especialy a 3.4 ghz with 1mb of cache vs a Celeron at 2.93 and 256 cache :)

i think its worth the upgrade if its cheap enough.
 
nope,a P4 would kill the Celly,especialy a 3.4 ghz with 1mb of cache vs a Celeron at 2.93 and 256 cache
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Yea, his spreadsheets and internet are going to be a whole lot faster... :P

The extra cache will cetainly help when gaming and doing multimedia stuff, but I can assure you that Word isn't going to open (noticeably) faster than before, if you upgrade.
 
I would say if you can get it for 60$ or less go for it, if not then save up for a new computer. :)
 
arrowshooter said:
Thanks for all of your advice. I decided to spend the money on another dozen arrows. Something else that I really didn't need. :D
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:D friggin arrows are expensive, I only have 6 easton lightspeeds right now, and I fletched those myself! I gotta get another 6 so I at least have a dozen. BTW what do you shoot? I shoot a 08 martin saber @ 65#, 28" with a whisker biscuit and f-16 sights, limbsavers on the limbs and a limbsaver s-coil stabilizer, with easton lightspeeds with 2"blazer vanes with 100 grain g-5 montecs.
 
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