celleron pentium 4 amd athelon amd sempron. can anyone explain the differences between these and what can one do that the other cant?

 

Check out this place for computer answers:

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It is not a nice place like FTE, no language rules etc.

Other than that CNET may have some info.

 

celeron and sempron are the value oriented versions of the p4 and athlon, the celeron and sempron are mostly for families who only use the internet, athlon and p4 are for more powerful systems, i use athlon, and i'd reccomend athlon.. any other questions i'll help ya out

 

If your into multi-tasking, forget the celleron!

 

go pentium. Also, what are you using for your computer?

Depending on what you need a cheaper processor might be the way to go.

But even looking at that, a cheap processor today is 2000% better and more efficient than 5 years ago.

 

With the exeption of the AMD Opteron, and the Apple IBM processors, they all are 32-bit X86 instuction set chips and all will do the same job, just at different speeds. The main difference between the cheaper and more expensive product lines is the amount of cache memory on the chip.

Jim

 

The IBM's and Opterons were the only 64bit CPU's but now both AMD and Intel are going 64bit with all there latest replacement desktop CPU's and the chipset makers are following along. The AMD Athlon64 is a 64bit processor and the new Pentium4 6xx series socket 775's are 64bit processors. Windows XP64 will be released in the next couple months. The main difference in the AMD vs the Intel is that if you are going to do alot of gaming the best way to go is AMD, Intel chips do a better job with most desktop aps. There is a big difference in socket's also. AthlonXP's and all but one sempron use Socket A, Athlon64's come in 2 socket types, 754 and the newer 939 souckets. Pentium 4's use the older 478 socket and the newer P4 5xx and 6xx series use the new socket-T 775. Celeron's come in a couple different types also, The newest are Celeron D's and they are built on the Prescott core and come in either socket 478 or 775. On top of all that you have the different chipsets for both AMD and Intel.
I just built a 2.53GHZ CeleronD socket 775 setup for my mom and it does everything the general user will need. Office apps, surfing, email, the usual. It uses the 915 chipset with PCI Express so it will be very upgradable for the future, I would highly recomend that way to go unless you plan on gaming. For gaming I would go with the AMD Athlon64 with the Nforce4 ultra or sli chipset.

 

Well don't much on the differances, but it does make a differance in laptop as far as power useage , with the pent being power hungry, and celron being less.

 

I am an AMD fan all the way especially with the advent of the 64 bit processor. I use a pentium III in my laptop though because of intels devotion to mobile technology. It is the same comparison between fords and chevys when you ask a computer geek. Both are great processors and both have the fair market share.