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Which processor should I use?

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I have a P3 rig that I'm going to put together.
I have a P3 1.3ghz Celeron Tualatin and a
P3 800mhz coppermine. I know Celerons are not all that.
Which one will perform the best for my P3 rig?
Can someone tell me why the P3 celerons are crappy?
:p
 
because all celerons suck.. i'm not an intel person so i'm sorry that i can't be of anymore help.
 
That celeron is actually a PIII
Its 256k cache but only 100 mhz fsb.
thats a good chip....... 3 years ago :) j/k

use the celery
 
not sure how the Tualatin compairs, but I'm sure its faster.

oranges to oranges I've run/benched both of these setups, a celeron 2 (crippled coppermine P3) 600 @ 900 on 100 Mhz FSB is performance wise slightly ahead of a P3 700 on 100 Mhz FSB. So based on my experiance I'd go with the celeron. IMHO it will be measurably faster than the P3 500Mhz slower.
 
I'd opt for the Celeron, the Tualatin Celerons are pretty fast. The only main difference between it and a P3 is the FSB. My Celeron 1.0A Ghz @ 1.45Ghz is kicking ass and chewing bubblegum. (It's limited only by ram. Wish I had some good PC166 memory if it exists) If your motherboard allows you might get it up to 13x133, though 1733Mhz is probably a stretch for it.
 
go with the celeron, i had my celeron 1.3@1.6 on a different board. the tualatin celerons were the identical to tualatin p3's except for the the fsb.

coppermine celerons were not bad at all either. i had a coppermine celeron 1100 that could edge out a p3 1ghz. i also had a coppermine celeron 600@1035 that was just a little bit slower than a 1ghz p3.
 
i'm gonna vote for the smelleron too, since it's faster at stock speeds than that p3-800 would be. also - what board are you planning on running it on? you know not all s370 boards will run tuals because of the pin reassignments, right?
 
the celeron will be cooler and faster, but make sure your board supports it.

the tualatins are built on the .13nm processes, and have a voltage of 1.45. any chipset for the P3 except the i815 B-step and the VIA KT133-T/KT266-T will not support it. the coppermine p3's had 256k cache, as do the celeron tualatins, the only difference in the two is the FSB, but the tualatins scale very well, and you should be able to hit 133FSB. i have a tualatin thatll hit 1.8ghz no problem, unfortuantly the board craps out before the CPU does.
 
lithium726 said:
the celeron will be cooler and faster, but make sure your board supports it.

the tualatins are built on the .13nm processes, and have a voltage of 1.45. any chipset for the P3 except the i815 B-step and the VIA KT133-T/KT266-T will not support it. the coppermine p3's had 256k cache, as do the celeron tualatins, the only difference in the two is the FSB, but the tualatins scale very well, and you should be able to hit 133FSB. i have a tualatin thatll hit 1.8ghz no problem, unfortuantly the board craps out before the CPU does.
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The KT133x/266x were AMD Athlon chipsets. The Intel-supporting s370 chipset equivalents would be the "Apollo Pro133T" (694T) and "Apollo Pro266T".
 
nylint said:
The KT133x/266x were AMD Athlon chipsets. The Intel-supporting s370 chipset equivalents would be the "Apollo Pro133T" (694T) and "Apollo Pro266T".
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right right.. im an AMD guy normally :p
 
shh, not so loud. you'll wake the AMDchrist! *points to your dually tualatin system in sig*
 
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