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

geno2K3, but it seems that what you are not understanding is that a Celeron has only 1 single core, but the Pentium D, even if it does have a lower clock speed than the Celeron D, has 2 but the Pentium D has double the proccessing power of a regular CPU. so if it has a clock speed of 2.8GHz, technically it runs at 5.6GHz combining the power between the two of them. An excellent way to dexcribe the difference b/t a single CPU and a double CPU is running a virus scan, and a game at the same time.

in a regular CPU, lets take you Celeron D as an example, the two programs have fight for CPU power, so thats where that "hanging" effect and that dreaded hourglass come from.

In a Dual Core CPU each program has its own separate area to proccess its functions, so therefor, usually there is not as much of a degrade in performance. Yes, granted an AV scanner takes up alot of CPU power, b/c it has to scan everything in the computer, but if you compare that to a single core CPU, there is really no comparison.

i have a Celeron D 340 series that run at 2.93GHz in my emachines PC, and it runs good, but when i run the AV scanner, my PC is virtually useless, while that proccess is running, b/c it takes up almost 100% of the resources. and that Celeron D is NOT meant for gaming, as i stated earlier. If you even read the description on intels Website www.intel.com it even says that its a reliable CPU for basic, home, and home office, apps. not games.

i stongly reccommed stepping up to he Pentium D 900 series CPU for gaming power.

...AMD

all three of those processors are simlilar in performance, and my guess is that they would all be better than a celeron.

the Athlon-XP's are an older processor line that was comparable to a 2.8GHz/3.0Ghz socket-478 P4. the newer socket-939/AM2 Athlon-64's or Athlon-X2's are comparable to socket-775 P4's or P-D's. which would obviously be better than a celeron.

but no AMD processor is an option for you unless you plan on buying a new mobo

cheers :wave:

yes im taking your advise guys and im gonna save up for a pentium d 930 3.0 ghz 4mb L2 and a x1600 vid card. thanks alot

Thats a very nice, choice. should last you for some years to come, and shoyld Handle Windows Vista nicely.


...AMD