Which is the fastest

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Brian wrote:
Yes I know it's not realy the right forum to use but still I need an answerr on this so here goes.

Which is the fastest of these two:
Pentium4 1.7Ghz/512K L2/400FSB (old 130nm tech) or CeleronD 2.53Ghz/256K L2/533FSB (newer prescott 90nm tech core)?

Any input on which of these that runs the hottest would also be great (and yes the Celeron could very easily be clocked to 3Ghz but that's not what I intend, atleast not right now).

Both are very poor... But the Netburst architecture dies a death at slow speeds, so I would suggest the CeleronD, even though it has hardly any cache.

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I'm with Blob here, a cheap Athlon64 on an nForce4 mobo would give you best value for money!