Which is the preferable of the following two processors?
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 1.70 GHz, 256K Cache, 400 MHz FSB Willamette
Intel® Celeron® Processor 2.40 GHz, 128K Cache, 400 MHz FSB Northwood
Details:
A few months ago my motherboard died, so I bought a used computer that had a 2.4GHz Celeron. My old system had a 1.7GHz Pentium 4, so now I’m trying to decide which CPU to use.
Obviously a P4 is preferable over a Celeron, but the Celeron is (significantly?) faster than the P4. I’m wondering if the faster Celeron might be better for certain tasks (ie, stronger but dumber is better at some things than smarter but weaker). I tried Googling for some reviews and comparisons for graphs to get a clear depiction of which is better overall, but found nothing that helped. (I did manage to find one page that indicates (apparently by poll, not benchmark) that the Celeron is better.)
So which CPU should I use? Does anyone know of some graphs that I can use to compare the two?
The system is a general-purpose machine for word-processing, Internet, and casual games (not Crysis, but not Solitaire either). It will be running Windows XP. The board is a 478 with 400MHz FSB.
