Prescott vs. Northwood vs. Celeron D

Yea but the Celeron D was 478 and it fit in fine but the computer wouldnt boot up. So i took it to Digiteck Computers and they said that motherboard didnt accept The Celeron D
 
um unless you are really, I mean REALLY tight on budget don't get a Celeron cause they really suck. Just make sure the processor you get is socket 478.
 
liuliuboy said:
um unless you are really, I mean REALLY tight on budget don't get a Celeron cause they really suck. Just make sure the processor you get is socket 478.
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I am kinda on a budget, but that's not going to matter because my minds made up that i will buy a Intel P4 Northwood. See the only reason i bought the Celeron D in the first place was because i was really on a buget then and i really wanted the damn thing to work. So, now the money I am saving for a new snowboard will go and buy a new processor.
 
If the board doesnt take the chip then either
a. Maybe flash update the bios
b. Take the board back, it's not fit for purpose and was sold under false pretexts
 
apj101 said:
If the board doesnt take the chip then either
a. Maybe flash update the bios
b. Take the board back, it's not fit for purpose and was sold under false pretexts
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Are you saying if i buy the Northwood and it doesnt work then do all that?
 
no, sorry i;m not being clear. I am still refering to your celeron.

Look for a bios update, sometime they will introduce more chip support in future bios's
or take the board back and get another one, this will be cheaper than wasting that celeron and buying a p4 (although the p4 is superior)
 
Yea, I thought about that but then i decided not to do that because i will use the Celeron for when i build my brothers computer. Because then i have to look for a mobo that will fit a Celeron D and my Memory...when i wanted a P4 to start with....
 
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You couldn't ask for a better single core lintel chip than the Northwood anyway. The only thing that the Prescott has over it is SSE3 instructions which requires software to support it and there isn't really much out there that does. The Northwood has shorter pipes and runs cooler than the Prescott does and even out performs it a bit at the same clock speed. In fact the first P4 EE (extreme edition) was built on the Northwood core. So enjoy, you made the right decision on your choice of CPU.
 
if you are on a budget you should have went with amd and their sempron processors.
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there not much between amds semprons, and intel celeron D (this is the prescott core). There also aint much in the price either. I'm not going to fire bench marks at you though :D
AMD could probably add a boast to there budget lineup if they redesigned the semprons around the barton core. They seem happy at the moment though
 
You couldn't ask for a better single core lintel chip than the Northwood anyway. The only thing that the Prescott has over it is SSE3 instructions which requires software to support it and there isn't really much out there that does. The Northwood has shorter pipes and runs cooler than the Prescott does and even out performs it a bit at the same clock speed. In fact the first P4 EE (extreme edition) was built on the Northwood core. So enjoy, you made the right decision on your choice of CPU.
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Goiod thing this is a S478 discussion cuz when we move to LGA775, Prescotts do pull away. Naturally i do agree with you as usual on the Northy's :)

there not much between amds semprons, and intel celeron D (this is the prescott core).
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Actually ... there's quite a difference (for starters, AMD procs have never been cache dependent unlike their Intel counterparts) and if you pull a S754 Sempy the on-die memory controller is just the nail in the coffin
 
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