barton 2500+ vs 2.5ghz celeron?

[Wildace]

my cousin has a Emachine ... it has a 2.5ghz 400mhz fsb 128kb cache celeron. and its running on pc2100. 40gb 5400rpm hd

i have a 2500+ barton, MB and 512mb pc3200 just laying around was wondering what kind of a performance increase there would be and if it would be worth it for me to set it up for him. i cant seem to find them compared anywhere really. any help and asap would be much appreciated.

he just bought a 80gb 7200 WD caviar hd. so i was wondering if before i did a reinstall everything on that new HD if i should take it home and just use my stuff instead of all that Emachine crap.

 

[NickN]

The Athlon XP should blow that Celeron out of the water. The 400MHz FSB Celeron line was crap.

One of my friends has a 1.2GHz Athlon system, and a 2.0GHz Celeron system with similar RAM/video cards, and the Athlon is quite a bit faster. Put bluntly, this demonstrates that Celerons suck compared to Athlons.

There should be a HUGE improvement in performance with the Barton 2500.

 

[bobsaget]

The Athlon XP should blow that Celeron out of the water. The 400MHz FSB Celeron line was crap.

One of my friends has a 1.2GHz Athlon system, and a 2.0GHz Celeron system with similar RAM/video cards, and the Athlon is quite a bit faster. Put bluntly, this demonstrates that Celerons suck compared to Athlons.

There should be a HUGE improvement in performance with the Barton 2500.

yeah... and you could overclock that 2500 to 3200+ speeds and it would be comparable to a ~2.8ghz Pentium 4.