Celeron as fast as a pentium II?

Question

I want to buy an external hard drive that requires a Pentium II or Greater. I don't know if the Celeron is "high" enough?

Answer 1

If the drive requires a "Pentium ll" or greater, then a Celeron will work. The Celerons did not appear on the market until after the Pentium llll, so all Celerons are "greater" then a Pentium ll.

Both the Celeron and the Pentium are made by Intel and are exactly the same, except the Pentium as a memory cache build into it that the Celeron does not. This allows the Pentium to preload parts of a program into the memory so it can access it faster that it can from the hard drive. However this cache memory cast more than the processor itself, so Intel can reduce processor cost if they do not include the memory. Without the memory, it is a Celeron.

Answer 2

A Celeron will work provided you've got a computer with a USB port. The statement that it requires a Pentium II or greater doesn't make any sense anyway (it's not a piece of software that requires a powerful computer but a piece of hardware that any modern OS will handle on pretty much anything it can run on).

As for the speed of the Celerons, the first ones (at 266 MHz and 300 MHz without any L2 cache) were hideously slow but when Intel added some L2 cache to them they became comparable to a similrly clock Pentium II (Celerons with L2 cache were 300 MHz and up, the 300s with cache were often designated 300A to distinguish them from the ones without any).

As Intel moved to the Pentium III and Pentium 4 the Celeron line was updated to add some of the improvements (the original Celerons were based on the Pentium II and were to replace the Pentium MMX as Intel's low end processor) so a recent Celeron is going to be way better than a Pentium II (the Celerons were Intel's budget model processor so they usually didn't have as much cache as the more expensive stuff and also weren't typically clock as high at any given time).

Answer 3

It depends on what Celeron you have. The Pentium II processors ranged in speed from 233 Mhz to 450 Mhz. The Celeron processor, when first introduced, ran at 333 Mhz, but successive models of Celeron have been introduced without the use of II, III, IV, or other number distinctions, as Celeron is simply Intel's "budget" line. If you have a Celeron process of at least 600 Mhz, it should have processing power comparable to the fastest Pentium II.

Answer 4

The Celeron is an 'performance' chip. It run's slower, burns warmer than a Pentium. It will additionally sit down on a distinctive style of motherboard. It additionally does not have the 'cache' of the Pentium so having access to information takes longer.

Answer 5

It does not really matter. Old computers with slow processors have NO USB ports. Most external drives connect through a USB port. So, generally, if your PC has USB ports, an external drive could connect to it.

Answer 6

celeron processor is upto pentium III ,so i think u can buy those hard disks......

Answer 7

this all depends upon system configuration, however pent4 is batter then celeron...it depends upon the speed of processor