Celeron D vs. P4 Northwood

[myrmidon]

I have a 400mhz FSB Northwood 2.8ghz, i've been looking for an upgrade sometime soon, but the $200+ 800mhz processors are almost out of my price range, i'm a student and i'm trying to keep it $150 and under... While looking at the CPU price guide, I noticed they make Celeron D's in the socket 478 variety.. Would buying one of these increase my performance over my current processor? I'm mostly looking for an increase in game performance, I have a Geforce 6600gt, and 1gb of nice 2-3-3-7 ram, but most of the apps I use and games I play seem to be limited by my processor, and not anything else, would the extra core help at all?

 

[stevty2889]

Celeron-D's are not dual core, they are the prescott variaty of celerons. The D doesn't mean dual core. The celeron-D has 256k cache, which is less than what your northwood has, so your northwood would still be faster than the celeron-d.

 

[the splat in the hat]

LOLOLOL ! what he said above, dude , suss it out more before you open that wallet , or you will be pisssssssed n at !

A dual core will definately be an improvement from your 2.8 , however whether its worth it now to, you for cost is very iffy......
I would be looking at f@@@king that 6600gt thingo off and updateing your video card and maybe look at the speed of your ram , too. That will definately help your games ......

 

[abs0lut3]

Originally posted by: myrmidon
I have a 400mhz FSB Northwood 2.8ghz, i've been looking for an upgrade sometime soon, but the $200+ 800mhz processors are almost out of my price range, i'm a student and i'm trying to keep it $150 and under... While looking at the CPU price guide, I noticed they make Celeron D's in the socket 478 variety.. Would buying one of these increase my performance over my current processor? I'm mostly looking for an increase in game performance, I have a Geforce 6600gt, and 1gb of nice 2-3-3-7 ram, but most of the apps I use and games I play seem to be limited by my processor, and not anything else, would the extra core help at all?

have you ever tried overclocking your processor instead?

 

[stability99]

Don't DO IT ... Celeron cannot compare to your Northw. 2.8

Keep your money for other thing and study good.