Originally posted by ZeroHour:
I dunno I've used a alot of PC's with celerons in them. And my roommate has had his dell (celeron inside) for over a year with no problems.

I've always gone with the Intel product, but its always been the pentium.

What are the issues with a Celeron? besides they are cheap because they do less steps in the cycle then the pentium?



give it a couple of months, his hard drive will fail.. As for the celeron, it just poorly designed, how can you justify spending $72 on a low performance, poorly designed processor... when you can have something thats faster, will last longer, and the motherboard for it is virtually more upgradeable... I built a friend of mine a computer with an Atlon Sempon 64 3000+ a couple of months ago, it had a gig of ram as well. I must say, I was jelious of it... everything was instant, I started multitasking on it, and I just couldn't bog it down. Every time I threw something at it, it just took it like it was nothing... Plus with the 64 bit processing support, you will be more prepaired for the new version of windows, which is optimised for 64 processors.... I would say spend the $82 and get a Sempon 64 3000+ or get the Venice Core 3200+ Athlon 64 for $152.... Also, check Tiger Direct for some barebones kits, sometimes they just have some absolute steals on there with really good parts.

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Mini PC's ROCK, im probably going to build one like that for college.... just opening up some options... Believe me, if you go Athlon 64, you wont be sorry. I have built many AMD systems, and a few Intel systems... EVERY intel system I have ever built has been a complete pain in the ass. Like, either it will go together flawlessly, then fail less then a month later, or it will give me crap right from the start.

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