Celeron good for game machine?
 

I'm building a machine just for games... mostly for MAME but also for some 3d games

Will a fast celeron be ok? Games is ALL this machine will be running. Going with a good geforce card to handle the video and about a gig of ram

nah, go with a p4 :2 cents:

umm to play MAME games all you need is like an 500mhz processor.

yes i know, but I also mentioned some 3d gaming

not sure how the celeron performs, i've never had one

Isn't xbox a celeron?

good question... xbox plays games just fine...

Go with P4 or AMD 64! Those would be the best for right now! Celeron wouldn't be worth a shit!

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A native xbox is a p3. You can buy modded boxes with 1.4 ghz celerons in them though

I have a Celeron PC and it held up quit well with games when I used it but, I would recommend a P4 2.6c processor. They're good CPU's and they are gods for overclocking. :2 cents:

XBOX is a Celeron but the games run fine because they are specifically programmed for the machine. For games/photoshop etc. the Celeron sucks big time. Buy AMD/P4 instead.

Are you sure it's celeron? I am under teh impression that it's p3 chips.

I'm goina have to go digging now to know for sure

We are both right, it's a hybrid 733MHz. Looks like Intel made a special processor for the XBox.

highly recommending..

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I agree

AMD all the way :thumbsup

There is basically NO price difference between a celeron and an althlon xp.. so for more bang for your buck I'd get the AMD.

Truth be told a celeron makes an okay gaming rig.. most of the fancy stuff is games is done by your graphics card.

Xbox runs a 700Mhz PIII.

just search google for some info about this theres plenty it helped me when i was building mine

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