How is a Celeron for folding?

Copper · Post by **Copper** » Sat May 15, 2004 5:01 pm

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?

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Sat May 15, 2004 5:51 pm

Only what I have read Copper. Although some WU's seem to do as well on Celerons as on P4's, I would pop for the P4. The Celerons are not considered much of a bargain.

David

Copper · Post by **Copper** » Sat May 15, 2004 7:12 pm

2.4B it is.

ColdFlame · Post by **ColdFlame** » Sat May 15, 2004 9:51 pm

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.

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Sun May 16, 2004 5:45 am

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 
 ---------     ----- 
 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

Copper · Post by **Copper** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:08 am

I'm now very happy I ordered the 2.4B!!

Copper · Post by **Copper** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:13 am

If anyone else wants to pick up a 2.4B, NewEgg is selling them for $137... considerably less than even ZipZoomFly.

mas92264 · Post by **mas92264** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:13 am

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

mas92264 · Post by **mas92264** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:19 am

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