Okay, first off, a 2.6 Celeron would perform roughly equivlent to an AMD 2000+ I believe. Same with my old 2.2Ghz Celeron, it performs onpar with an AMD 1700+ on nearly every benchmark.Originally posted by OnYx@19 January 2004 - 22:32
if i dont overclock is the amd 2500 still better and how much could the celeron (2.6ghz) be overclocked w/o any extra fans jus da 1 dat comes wit the cpu
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As for overclocking, you could if youwanted overclock the 2.6 Celeron to probably 3.4Ghz or so, with VERY good Ram, and proper cooling. The celerons only really come into their value when they are overclocked.
But in that same aspect, you can buy only moderately more expensive Ram, (3200Ram instead of 2700 that the 2500+ barton uses pretty much natively in a sense, because of the matching 333Mhz of both prodcuts.) But anyway, with just slightly higher ram, and even using your stock cooler, you can overclock your AMD 2500+ to 3200+ speeds, which would of course blow away that Celeron again.
I'd go with the 2500+ if I were you.
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