bought a pc over ebay, did i get ****'** over?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116225
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celeron D 3.2ghz 533mhz fsb 256kb l2
2gb ddr400 memory
160 gb ata HD
agp-x8 mobo (video card sold seperatly, probaly gonna get ati 9600xt 256mb)
optical mouse + keyboard
sound blaster ac 97
450w psu
no monitor

Grand total (with tax and shipping) = $465.00

1st: did i make a bad choice and get ripped off?
2nd: will this pc be able to handle games like world of warcraft, call of duty 2, wc3:tft, ect. (with the assumption i get a 9600xt 256mb 500mhz core clock)
3rd: would it be better if i replaced the celeron d with a more better processor? say p4 dual core?

thanks if you can answer these three questions for me that would be great, be brutaly honest too.

BTW: i do realize i could have built a way better computer for the same price but i was too lazy to do that becouse last time i fried my mobo.

Nope it's not bad at all. Regarding gaming however, the Celeron is zilch for it. A Pentium D wouldn't be too expensive. Try this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116001
Before this however use a free program like Everest Home Edition or SIW(google for them) to find out ur motherboard make, brand, model and chipset.

geez

that celeron is overclocked..celeron dont run that high
ill let you in a story..my friend went to compusa and sad some celerons in the 3 gigahertz and ask the saleperson..the saleperson said they got overclocked manually ..haha

i think you are talking about the old celerons, the one that will be shipped to me is a celeron d with stock 3.2ghz ;/ but crappy l2 256kb cashe

yes celeron Ds do get that high of clock speed from the factory.

an Intel Celeron D 352 series gets 3.2GHz if im not mistaken. Heck my Celeron D 340 that i have in my eMachines PC runs at 2.93GHz natively

ooo can you please tell me how it runs, temp, and especialy how it performs on games.

bump, anyone give me more info on my systen!

wait, did you buy my pc on ebay?!?! heres the link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...50007996272&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESO:IT&rd=1

haha nvm i didnt look very closely

Runs: It runs pretty good, sounds like a wind tunnel when it first powers up, for about 5 sec. then it goes pretty silent. I run Windows XP w/512MB RAM and it runs good.

Temp: it runs fairly cool, when you launch a CPU intensive app like an antiirus scanner, it gets a little warm, but i've never had any trouble with it overheating.

games: you do need to realize that Celerons are not meant for games. light games like MS flight Sim 2004, and The sims 2 it runs ok, but then again i have an Nvidia card with 128MB DDR2 RAM on it so i dont know aout your GPU. but its not meant for intense games. For that stuff go with a Pentium D or an Athlon X2. I mainly use it for web browsing and office apps like MS word, excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. I use my laptop whitch has an Intel Core Duo w/1GB RAM for my more intense games.

All in all, if you are just looking for a CPU to browse the web, use MS Office, then the Celeron is a good choice. But if your using it for games, i would reccomedn stepping up to the more powerful Intel Pentium D 900 series CPU

geno2k3, ur system is quite good, except for the processor. An upgrade to the Pentium D I posted will not cost u too much and give u a much, much better performing machine. The 9600XT is a good card and will be able to play almost all new games out there quite comfortably. So don't worry about that.

i probaly wont be upgrading the processor but i will be getting a x1600 pro 256 mb agp 8x 500 mhz core clock 800 mhz mem clock.. pritty good vid card imo.

As i mentioned earlier, This Celeron D series is NOT meant for gaming, now if you want powerful gaming power, step up to the Pentium D 900 series like Rage 3K Moiz and I mentioned earlier

well its looking like i have no choice now... so games like cod2, cs:s, wow are gonna be realy slow? sluggish? or unplayable?

The cheapiest P-d is your best beat.

Celeron D's are not complete junk for games. I had a 9600XT with a Celeron D 335, and it managed to play games very acceptable, like San Andreas, PoP: two thrones, even played PRETTY good Far Cry...

the cheapest p-d 805 (im on a budget) is not much better in performance compared to the 3.2 ghz celeron i have... probaly a 10% increase... not worth 100 bucks.

can anyone compare this cpu (celeron d 531 3.2 ghz) to amd athlon xp 2800+ 3000+ p4 2.6 ghz ect... i cant seem to find many things on this video card.

No, it is worth that money. The performance increase will be much greater, about 50-60% more plus the Celeron is not dual-core. For 100 bucks u r getting a good dual core processor that will help u multitask and give u superb performance as compared to the Celeron D.
Ur video card is quite good and a 512MB version will not cost too much more and give it a significant power boost.

ive seen a few benchmarks where the pentium d 805 did not perform well. it was only a 10% increase in efficientcy, if you could, show me some benchmarks that prove its waaay better then a celeron d becouse im on a tight budget.