HELP!! Pentium Question?

Question

Hi, I will be getting a new Computer soon....Everyone says to get a Pentium instead of a Intel Celeron.....What is the difference besides the price? I don't know much about computers, Can someone please answer this? I need info from someone who knows alot about computers, I have dial up, Can't get high speed where i live, I also sell alot on ebay and use alot of pictures ....Thanks

Answer 1

You say you don't know a lot about computers...

Intel Celeron is considered a low-end PC processor. It doesn't sound like you need a dual core processor for the things you use your computer for.

I would suggest getting a Pentium 4, it's not the latest thing on the market, so it won't be super expensive, but it will also be just fine for ebay and pictures and such.

It has much more cache memory than the celeron, and 50% bigger bandwidth.

Answer 2

I used to be an Intel boy myself, until the Megahertz Myth blew up in their faces and AMD's Athlons showed up on the scene. If you're not going to need all the excess megahertzes, AMD is a more preferable choice in my opinion now as they're cheaper and Athlon 64 systems will run rings around their Pentium 4 equivalents.

If your dealer carries AMD stuff, I'd recommend AMD. Go for the Athlon 64s, even the lower-end ones will be a good deal if you're not so much into heavyweight software.

If they don't, well, Pentiums are the better choice over Celerons.

Answer 3

hi regarding your question, Pentium is n bit faster than a celeron machine. the div between these two is that. Pentium can run more open programs than celeron, let me try and explain. if you are using work and want to run your emails and explorer at the same time I would say get the Pentium Pentium is made to run more than one program, where celeron you can run at least two programs one that you have open and one minimized if you open up the 3 your machine will become slower. I would rather pay more for one of the top range pentiums than celeron

Answer 4

The Pentium is a fifth-generation x86 architecture microprocessor from Intel. It was the successor to the 486 line, and was first shipped on March 22, 1993.

The Pentium was expected to be named 80586 or i586, to follow the naming convention of previous generations. However, Intel was unable to convince a court to allow them to trademark a number (such as 486), in order to prevent competitors such as Advanced Micro Devices from branding their processors with similar names (such as AMD's Am486). Intel enlisted the help of Lexicon Branding to create a brand that could be trademarked. The Pentium brand was very successful, and was maintained through several generations of processors, from the Pentium Pro to the Pentium Extreme Edition. Although not used for marketing purposes, Pentium series processors are still given numerical product codes, starting with 80500 for the original Pentium chip.

Intel has now largely retired the Pentium brand and replaced it with the "Intel Core" brand, although a future line of value processors will use the Pentium and Celeron brands[1]. The first Intel Core, released in January 2006, extended the Pentium M microarchitecture. The Intel Core 2, released in July 2006, features the new Intel Core microarchitecture.

Microsoft and many other companies use the original Pentium as a standard for specifications of requirements. For example, Microsoft's stated requirements for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition, include (at least) a Pentium processor running at a clock speed of 600MHz (required), or 1GHz (recommended). To find out if another processor meets the requirement, a conversion must be used that gives its speed in terms of standard Pentium clock rates. For example, a Pentium Pro would meet the requirement running at a much lower clock speed, because of its more advanced architecture. An equivalency chart is usually used to compare more modern processors to find out if they meet this requirement.

In programming, it is sometimes necessary to distinguish the original Pentium processor architecture from later (P6 or P68-based) Pentium-branded architectures. For these cases, i586 is is a common, though spurious, way to refer to the early Pentium processors, as well as processors made by Intel's competitors that can run machine code targeted to the early Pentiums

Answer 5

the difference is the processes and the way they are handled the celeron is a tuned down version of the pentium therefor it does fewer processes per second

Answer 6

Performance. Pentium is faster.

Answer 7

I stupidly moved from AMD to Pentium, never again, get an AMD you wont regret it

Answer 8

well i suggest buy AMD they a r the best if its a home or office use PC coz they work on cool 'n' quite technology