I know Celeron is on the bottom of the list...How bad is it? Im asking cuz I found a comptuer at a good price BUT it is Intel Celeron D 356....I will be useing Road Runner High Speed internet connection....What is the difference in the processor speed...Will it be noticable?
2007-02-27 04:35:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Its 3.3GHz
2007-02-27 04:36:17 · update #1
Yeah it's a cheaper chip and it will be on an older chipset motherboard.
In any case, if you're not running games or doing any heavy encoding it wouldn't necessesarily be terrible either. Running office software or checking your email or even the occasional photoshoping can all be handled quite easily on a celeron. If you're going to be encoding video or other heavy processing work then you'd get a lag from that chip.
I'd also try to avoid vista....xp will run much smoother
2007-02-27 04:43:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Avoid Celerons like the plague. They really are terrible and not worth the money you might save. Do some reasearch and buy a computer with either an Intel Core 2 Duo or an AMD Athlon64. The Athlon processors have dropped in price alot since Intel released the Core Duos. If you really need to be cheap you could get an AMD Sempron. It's not great, but it'll get the job done.
2007-02-27 04:51:48 · answer #2 · answered by taskr36 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't matter. I've been working on a Celeron system with 2.6GHz (rebuilding it so I can sell it) and I hate the thing. I hate how long the boot takes, I hate how long it takes to load Windows XP, I hate how long it takes to load the desktop, I hate how long the login takes, I hate it. I hate Celerons. Not that I liked them before but now I know first hand just how bad they suck. And this is a system with 1GB of memory, an 80GB hard drive and a fresh install of XP and it is still slow as dirt, no... slower than that. Of course, I'm coming from using my Core Duo laptop and Athlon 64x2 desktop so a lot of things seem slow to me. But yeah, Celerons sucks, they're slow and they aren't good for much of anything except maybe for a computer that is only used to browse the web and access email, useless for anything else, even using iTunes... slow and useless Celerons.
Avoid them like the plague. Go pick out an AMD Athlon (or Turion for laptops) system, it should be cheaper than an Intel Core Duo or Core 2 Duo system but will be far superior to a Celeron system.
As far as I am concerned, even for general day to day use, Celerons are TOO SLOW, TOO SLOW, WAY TOO FRIGGIN SLOW!!
2007-02-27 04:42:17 · answer #3 · answered by conradj213 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i wouldn't buy a celeron base PC it will be fast but it will be slow after a while. dont doit...
2007-02-27 04:42:42 · answer #4 · answered by Sagar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
celeron has always worked well for me. plus 3.3ghz is pretty fast.
2007-02-27 04:39:54 · answer #5 · answered by rchilly2000 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋