P4 1.5Ghz vs P4 celeron 1.7Ghz

[njakus]

Hi,

What is better, P4 1.5Ghz or P4 celeron 1.7Ghz

What is the advantage

Discussion opened

[Telexen]

Tough one...they're both horrible processors...that generation of Pentium 4s were a joke and the celerons have always been a joke.

[wackoguy]

theres no such thing as a P4 celeron 1.7ghz, is there?

[Telexen]

those celerons were based on Pentium 4s

[njakus]

If I understand, the P4 Celeron 1.7 is better than P4 1.5

But the P4 has 256 of cash mem and the celeron just 128

What the cash does?

[Agent_Embryo]

That's Cache-memory. Cash is something else...

The Level 2 cache memory is a small, fast memory close to the CPU core that stores data that's very frequently used.

Look at it this way:

The CPU needs some data. It first(if you don't count the L1 Cache) checks the L2 Cache if it's there. If not it goes to the RAM and checks there. And finally, if it's not there eighter it grabs it from the harddrive.

Simplified.

[JayMan]

If i had to choose between either of those, i'd go the P4... The new celery's are pretty bad....

The old ones were killers for their time tho! Still got a celery 300A that does 500 no problems. Plus with the on die cache (from the celery 300A onwards) they celery's performed better than a P2 (more cache, but off die) of the same speed.

JayMan

[nukes]

P4. The celerons are crippled due to their cache. P4s have 512k, whereas the Celerons still have some far too low value.
They're ok for general office work and such, but I highly doubt a 2ghz celeron would outperform a 1.6 P4.

[njakus]

The problem is that I can't overclock because the Frequence is blocked, and the multiplicator doesn't change anything

I don't know if it's the mainboard or the CPU who blocks
PS: The mainboard is an ECS P4VMM

[njakus]

And I can't raise the voltage too