Which is better: Celery 1ghz vs PIII 733mhz???

Stryfe · Nov 11, 2006

The topic says it all. I'm building a machine out of salvaged parts and I've got two CPU options, a Celeron 1ghz(128kb, 100mhz), or a PIII 733mhz(256kb, 133mhz).

The machine will be used as a firewall/router, likely with smoothwall.

Shelnutt2 · Nov 11, 2006

PIII will run better, the extra cache and FSB will really help it.

hUMANbEATbOX · Nov 11, 2006

also, while i don't know what kinda celery and what kinda p3, i think the celery won't oc that much, if at all. if it were one of the newer celerons, like the 1.2ghz ones, you might have a shot at say 1.6ghz. but i think the p3 will oc to around 900-950mhz (like mine), which would for sure trash the celery.

Stryfe · Nov 11, 2006

The mobo I have is out of an Acer and has no OCing options so both of these will be at stock speed.

Shelnutt2 · Nov 11, 2006

Stryfe said:
The mobo I have is out of an Acer and has no OCing options so both of these will be at stock speed.

I stick with my recommendation. (Although you could oc the celly by setting it to 133FSB instead of 100)...but I still say stick with the PIII,

Stryfe · Nov 12, 2006

That's what I've done. I've got the PIII with 192mb of RAM and a 7gb hard drive running Smoothwall. It's working great

Thanks!

Which is better: Celery 1ghz vs PIII 733mhz???

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