It is and it isn't. Intel has packaged a large number of different processors as "pentium 2" and "celeron." The celeron tended to be the "budget processor," but due to availability the Celeron frequently was actually a real Pentium 2. The Celerons were labeled and set to report that they were weaker than they really were. This is where overclocking comes in. Overclockers found that Celerons could be overclocked just as well as the Pentium 2 chips on certain production runs. A little more research showed what actually was going on.
it seems celeron is better unless Pentium has 2 cores
non!!! Intel celeron is better than Intel Pentium dual core
Celeron doesn't refer to any particular processor series. Celerons were cost-reduced versions of their Pentium equivalents. The Celeron in question could be based on a Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium 4, Pentium D, or Core 2 Duo. In which case the answers would be "Pentium 3, Usually Pentium 3, Celeron, Celeron, and Celeron", respectively.
The Intel Pentium T4300 by a pretty good margin The Celeron has a reduced cache compliment with substantially reduces it's performance, even if the frequency and FSB were higher.
With the dual core you can process more, but with the pentium at a slightly higher rate, I'd go with the celeron however.
No. The Celeron is much slower.
It depends on your applications, but a Celeron D won't be all that much slower and will provide excellent value.
Possibly. "Celeron" doesn't refer to any particular processor. They are cost-reduced versions of the Intel Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, and Core 2 Duo. Assuming that your Celeron is based on a processor that is faster than the Pentium III, you shouldn't have any problems. If yours is based on the Pentium III, check the clock speed. A 1.2 GHz Celeron, for instance, is probably fast enough for a game that requires a 1 GHz Pentium III.Other factors, such as the graphics card of your system, may also be important.
Pentium II, Athlon XP, Pentium 4 Celeron, Pentium Extreme Edition
Pentium 4 sockets were sockets numbers Socket 423 for early Pentium 4's. Then socket 478 for Pentium 4, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition and Celeron and socket T (LGA 775) for Pentium 4, Pentium D dual core, Celeron D and Pentium Extreme Edition.
AnswerA Celeron was a cost-reduced version of an Intel Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium D, or Pentium M. It was made cheaper by not including as much L2 cache (the first ones had none at all), and was aimed primarily at the lower-end market.
Intel Celeron processors are generally designed to be an inexpensive alternative to Pentiums, which are more powerful (but less energy efficient) chips by comparison.