what is the differance between a intel pentium and celeron processor?

Answer 1

Here are the most important similarities and differences between the Pentium 4 and the Celeron chips coming out today:

Core - The Celeron chip is based on a Pentium 4 core.

Cache - Celeron chips have less cache memory than Pentium 4 chips do. A Celeron might have 128 kilobytes of L2 cache, while a Pentium 4 can have four times that. The amount of L2 cache memory can have a big effect on performance.

Clock speed - Intel manufactures the Pentium 4 chips to run at a higher clock speed than Celeron chips. The fastest Pentium 4 might be 60 percent faster than the fastest Celeron.

Bus speed - There are differences in the maximum bus speeds that the processors allow. Pentium 4s tend to be about 30 percent faster than Celerons.

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Answer 2

An intel pentium processor is faster than a celeron processor. But at the same rate, a celeron processor is cheaper than intel. So, you can make your decision on which you want to go with depending on how much money you want to spend and how fast you want your computer to be.

Answer 3

The Celeron is a basic "baby" version of the Pentium 4.

Answer 4

Philip T basically gave a good answer but (and there is always a "but") the newer Celerons have a larger L2 cache (256) and the newest ones have a 512 cache. The Celeron is much easier to overclock and you can get very good performance out of them if you want to chance destroying the chip by overclocking too much. It is a cheaper chip and not as fast as a true P4 but if you are in the 3+ ghz area, unless you are a serious gamer, you probably won't notice the difference as long as you have sufficient ram and a fast (sata) hard drive.

Answer 5

Celeron was designed to accomodate the 'entry level' market and Pentium was for the rest. Basically, if you are using office applications, you probably won't be able to tell the speed difference. But I would still recommend a Pentium processor.

Answer 6

The core CPU and L1 cache of recent Celerons is the same as Pentium 4 but they have smaller L2 caches.

Answer 7

The Celeron is garbage - The Pentium is good - AMD Athlon is the best.

Answer 8

Celeron are what Intel made first before they got the chip perfect

Answer 9

The Pentium is a far superior processor

Answer 10

a celeron is a low end cheaper CPU , commonly found in what i refer to as a starter PC .