Difference between celeron and intel pentium?

Question

I'm looking to get a dedicated server that will run cpu intensive applications which hopefully will get a lot of traffic.

I have a choice between a celeron 2.0 and intel pentium 2.0 server. All other specs are the same. I know a celeron server is slower, but does anyone know just how much slower?

The celeron is significantly cheaper then the intel pentium server.

Answer 1

Choose a Pentium for servers. Celerons are mostly used for personal computing and not for servers as they are not that good in intensive cpu calculations. Their cache is always smaller than Pentiums and this becomes a bottleneck for intensive and fast calculations. Comparing a Pentium and Celeron at the same clock speed, the Pentium will win in the margin of 40% better and faster performance.

Answer 2

Full strength Pentium is a Corvette.
Celeron is just a Pinto. It will still get you there, but more slowly. Primarily, its the floating point process er they removed. With Celeron, that is performed by the OS which is much slower than the processor.

Answer 3

Celeron is much slower and without pentium you're restricting your access to alot of programs

Answer 4

You are MUCH MUCH better off with a pentium iii then a current celeron. celeron is crappy.

Answer 5

celeron and pentium are the same technology it's just different names, what matters is how many cycles of information the proccessor can proccess. this is measured in GHZ gigahertz. a 2.46ghz proccessor would be faster than a 1.4ghz prossessor

Answer 6

the difference is in the cache memory on the CPU get the pentium as it will be upgradable

Answer 7

Pentium is better.

Answer 8

http://www.cpu-world.com/info/Intel/Celeron-vs-Pentium.html

Mainly speed associated