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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: a.rowe55 on January 02, 2004, 19:51

Title: Processor?
Post by: a.rowe55 on January 02, 2004, 19:51

I have an intel celeron processor in my pc which the speed is 2.6mhz.

All I want to know how good is my processer?
Is it worth it to upgrade it to an pentium 4

Title: Re:Processor?
Post by: Adept on January 02, 2004, 20:00

Hi a.rowe55 :welcome:

It all depends what you are using the processor for. The Celeron is a cut down version of the Pentium 4, but for anything except the most processor-intensive tasks (such as games and video editing) it will be more than adequate.

In fact as long as you have good supporting components, such as lots (>256Meg) memory, a fast hard drive and a good graphics accelerator card, a Celeron 2.6GHz is more than adequate for most applications.

I have a 1.4GHz Athlon in my main PC, a 800MHz Duron in my son's PC and a Pentium 4 2.4GHz in my laptop. They all appear just about as fast as each other for all the applications I use :)