Piggah
April 23rd, 2006, 05:08 AM
Hey everyone, I've been driving myself nuts over what processor I should get for my test computer, which I just use for testing out distros, trying new stuff, etc.
Price is the largest factor for me right now, as I don't have much money. So I'm really looking for the most bang for my buck. I'm stuck between these processors:
Click (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2010340343+50001157+1051707443+1 050706982&Submit=ENE&Manufactory=1157&SubCategory=343)
Those are my options at this point, since they appear to be the only processors that fit my board, are cheap, and still should give me some performance. Feel free to recommend something else though.
The current specs of the computer, excluding the processor of course, is:
Shuttle AV49P S478 motherboard
256 megs of DDR333 memory
80 gig S-ATA150 hdd
Radeon 9200 video card
160W PSU
So I need something that with that system there, will be able to run quite a few different distros, capable of running GNOME fine, and be powerful enough that I can get most tasks done on it, which will mostly be testing for me.
The most important thing to me is price, so please take that into consideration. I just need the best performance for the price, but I've only ever had one Celeron, and I don't know how well they're going to perform. So if someone could give me some insight on the Celerons, I'd appreciate that too. I'm just never going to decide on something on my own. :P
Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it. :)
Edit: I just discovered that the ones I previously had picked out are all rebate deals, and I don't like messing with those. So I'm just going to go with a Celeron D from newegg, a site which I prefer more than others.
Price is the largest factor for me right now, as I don't have much money. So I'm really looking for the most bang for my buck. I'm stuck between these processors:
Click (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2010340343+50001157+1051707443+1 050706982&Submit=ENE&Manufactory=1157&SubCategory=343)
Those are my options at this point, since they appear to be the only processors that fit my board, are cheap, and still should give me some performance. Feel free to recommend something else though.
The current specs of the computer, excluding the processor of course, is:
Shuttle AV49P S478 motherboard
256 megs of DDR333 memory
80 gig S-ATA150 hdd
Radeon 9200 video card
160W PSU
So I need something that with that system there, will be able to run quite a few different distros, capable of running GNOME fine, and be powerful enough that I can get most tasks done on it, which will mostly be testing for me.
The most important thing to me is price, so please take that into consideration. I just need the best performance for the price, but I've only ever had one Celeron, and I don't know how well they're going to perform. So if someone could give me some insight on the Celerons, I'd appreciate that too. I'm just never going to decide on something on my own. :P
Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it. :)
Edit: I just discovered that the ones I previously had picked out are all rebate deals, and I don't like messing with those. So I'm just going to go with a Celeron D from newegg, a site which I prefer more than others.