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How is a Celeron for folding?
Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 5:01 pm
by Copper
The second machine I'm putting together has an intel 845 chipset which limits me to a 400 or 533mhz bus. My choice is between a Celeron 2.4 or a P4 2.4B. I can swing the 2.4B but if a Celeron folds as good or nearly as good I'll save the money and buy the Celeron.
Opinions and experiences?
Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 5:51 pm
by haysdb
Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 7:12 pm
by Copper
2.4B it is.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 9:51 pm
by ColdFlame
As someone who actually owns a Celeron
(but no P4 here) I can say that my Celeron
[email protected] Ghz is somewhat equal to my AMD 2000+. So I guess P4 2.4 would be faster, esp. if you can o/c it.
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 5:45 am
by haysdb
Here is a post that offers a comparison of a lot of different cpu's on the same protein.
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Processor Frame
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P4 3.2 3:44 ARM PowerHouse StealthPC (as reviewed by MikeC)
P4 3.0C 4:08 Avg of 2 clients/2
P4 2.8C 4:55 Avg of 2 clients/2
P4 3.0C 5:15 One client
Barton 2.4 5:17 What "speed rating" would this be, if such a chip existed?
P4 2.4C 5:18 Avg of 2 clients/2
Barton 3200+ 5:26
P4 2.8C 5:39 One client, Linux kernel not optimized for P4
Barton 3000+ 5:40
T'bred 2700+ 5:45
P4 2.66B 5:58
T'bred 2600+ 6:18
P4 2.53? 6:31
P4 2.4G 6:32 One client
T'bred 2400+ 6:40
Barton 2500+ 6:49
Centrino 1.6 6:51 ARM Stealth Notebook Prototype
P4 2.2A 7:17
T'bred 2200+ 7:29
Palomino 2000+ 7:52
Palomino 1800+ 8:14
P4 1.8 8:53
*Celeron 2.4 9:15
Palomino 1.4 9:33
*Celeron 2.2 10:21
P3 1.13 11:10
P3 1.0 13:18
P3 600 29:00
P3 566 30:15
Note the poor performance of the Celerons, e.g. a Celeron 2.4 was equivalent to a 1.4GHz Palomino.
David
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 6:08 am
by Copper
I'm now very happy I ordered the 2.4B!!
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 6:13 am
by Copper
If anyone else wants to pick up a 2.4B, NewEgg is selling them for $137... considerably less than even ZipZoomFly.
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 6:13 am
by mas92264
I just put a system together for a friend and used a 2.6 Celeron because of budgetary constraints. It made for a snappy, cool running system - for a general use system, it's fine.
Folded a few frames on it, just for fun, and it was a little slower than my 2000+ Palomino.
So, for folding, as David's stats point out, almost any T'bred or Barton would be significantly faster for the same $ or even less.
M
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 6:19 am
by mas92264
Copper wrote:If anyone else wants to pick up a 2.4B, NewEgg is selling them for $137... considerably less than even ZipZoomFly.
Yeah, the 2.4b is probably the best buy for an inexpensive Intel P4.
M