Re: Buying New PC -- PCTECH

If you aren't doing heavy processing a Celeron is fine, but if you will have
the slightest hint of heavy processing, don't get a Celeron, it doesn't have
as much cache and is thus slower. For the same money (or just about) you can
get an AMD that is much faster.

On 12/5/05, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why do I want to avoid Celeron?
>
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> > From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
> > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 3:26 PM
> > To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> > Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Buying New PC
> >
> > Intel: Avoid at all costs: Celeron anything.
> >        Worst at power consumption & heat generated: Pentium 4 chips.
> >        Best Intel chip for a desktop: Pentium M w/2MB cache.
> >
> > AMD: There are Sempron's (Duron successor) that support
> > X86-64.  Quite a steal if you want to play with 64-bit
> > computing in the near future.
> > However, Sempron's aren't as fast as the regular Athlon 64s.
> > IIRC they have less cache.
> >
> > Adequate: Intel Pentium 4 & AMD Sempron.
> > Better: Intel Pentium M and AMD Athlon/Athlon 64.
> > Best: AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual-core).
> >
> > Recommendation: Athlon 64.  Best bang/buck and reasonable
> > future-proofing with 64-bit support.
> >
> > Consider this:
> > http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?produc
> > t_id=02108
> > 67 coupled with
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824009056
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of rick baird
> > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 2:10 PM
> > To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> > Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Buying New PC
> >
> > I'm interested in this discussion too,
> >
> > specifically, which processors models are 'adequate', 'good', 'best'
> > and 'avoid at all costs'
> >
> > Costco has a $900 deal on a loaded Dell Pentium 4 with a 17
> > inch monitor.
> >
> > On 12/5/05, Mark Allen <allenmar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > looking for recommendations would prefer to buy
> > "everything" from one
> > source:
> > >  Cost is a primary consideration also
> > >
> > >
> > >  1.  Use will be 80% internet access from home, mostly email, IM,web
> > browsing, connect to remote iSeries.
> > >  2.  Need 17" monitor prefer 19" but space an issue as is
> > cost (?) for
> > a flat panel?
> > >  3.  60 GB preferred as minimum disk
> > >  4.  Mostly will be running MS Office stuff from the PC side
> > > (Powerpoint, Access, Excel, Word,maybe some web page
> > design)  5.  no
> > > need for DVD but need CD R/W (mostly for archive/backups)
> > 6.  No need
> >
> > > for ethernet capability (yet)  7.  At least 1 USB port for
> > connecting
> > > a "thumb" drive
> > >
> > >  Thanks.........
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------
> > >  Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less
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