Posted by Jackson on February 13, 2002 at 15:19:50:
In Reply to: Re: Celeron or Pentium III? posted by Lilwolf on February 13, 2002 at 14:29:05:
I thought about that, but would need additional hardware. I am on a tight budget. I only wish I could throw an athlon in there. In my opionon you can't beat an athlon, but I can't afford that sort of upgrade.
: I don't know pentIII's and celerons (haven't had one since my celery300(oc450).
: But durons are about 80% the speed of an athlon in general. And this seems to be a bigger difference in emulation.
: Also, Athlons do better per clock cycle in emulation then Pentiums (more then normal... since all athlons are faster per clock cycle, but again, it's more dramatic in emulation since emulation uses certain elements that aren't used in most PC Games and aren't optimized by Intel.. (or whatever their excuse is).
: Last thing. A new motherboard, athlon 1.4 fsb and 512mg ram is like $240 last I looked. So you might want to just upgrade your system, and move your athlon to the cabinet.