Question

Datagg

Hello all, a quick question. What would you think would be a faster computer a pentium 2 266 - or a celeron 500. Just curious what yall think...

DriveEuro

Celeron 500..... No doubt in my mind. And not cuz the numbers are bigger. But just cuz the gap of 233mhz is the difference. Go with the Celery.

Datagg

Thanks for quick reply. i asked because my mom has a celery 500 Emachine which i hate to no end, the whole damn thing seems so fricken slow. Well i was home and looked into my closet and saw a system that i could throw together that is a 266 p2. And since last post i also found a 400 p2 also. So in your opinion the p2 400 would still be slower than the crap celery 500 emachine????

Thanks again for the quick reply, shes on a limited budget right now and is dealing with that slow ass comp, I had some stuff laying around and was just wondering what you all thought.

Thanks guys...

DriveEuro

Well, they all are slow... But really, I still want to believe that the Celery is faster..... You have to remember, the Celery was made after the P2... so it's newer architecture... Maybe someone disagrees. I'm just speaking my opinion.

Datagg

Thanks again..i have to tell ya she got that Emachine crap about a year ago for around 350 bucks. i wasnt around at the time she bought it or i would of built one for her, yet this is the course she took. The damn thing dont even have a agp slot in it. if i was to put one of these old ones together for her at least they have a agp slot to them, yet if it is much slower then it wouldnt be worth it. Going over there to work on that comp, i tell ya i wanna smash that thing. i dont recall having such headaches with these p2 machines, yet it was awhile ago....

Does anyone have any more opinions on this??

Thanks guys

digerati

Burn the e-machine. I'd settle for a p166 than an e-machine >.<

Datagg

i agree with ya on that bro. She has so many problems with it, i feel so bad for my mom. This is why im asking opinions on this. i think im going to throw together my old p2 400 for her. At least it has an agp slot and I believe will proccess things faster for her. That celery thing is a piece of shit.

Necrosis

Yeah....

OC the 400 to 450! W/ it's faster FSB it will wipe the piss out of the Celery plus more cache.

Rayder

I assume that Emachine also had NO CARDS in it (graphics, sound, net connection) everything was built onto the motherboard, right? If so, THAT'S why it's so slow. I've found, long ago, that a carded system will ALWAYS be faster than any "all-onboard" system with the exact same CPU. I took my brother-in-laws K6-3 400mhz out of it's original motherboard (some SiS built-on everything m/b) and stuck it in a m/b that needed CARDS for sound and video and gave it back to him. He said it was like a whole new system. At least twice as fast as before.

Recently, we acquired a Pentium 3 766mhz Gateway system. It had onboard-everything too. We stuck a Radeon 7000 in it (PCI, it also has no AGP slot) and that alone woke that sucker up. It ain't no game machine, but it serves up the net just fine and reacts quicker than it did before. We use it for...ahem....NET stuff.

My guess is that the only useful parts of the Emachine are the CPU and harddrive (possibly modem, if it's an actual card) and the rest is garbage.....well, maybe the case could be useful, if it's one that has a full-size PSU in it.

In other words, the Celery could be a decent enough chip in a machine with CARDS in it. But if that's not possible, the P2 400 in a carded system would speed your Mom's PC up just fine.

Datagg

Wow thanks for reply. All on it is onboard except for the modem. I took out he one they had in there and put in a xoom modem which helped the internet out. The next thing that sucks is the 1 meg vidcard thats on board, i have agp cards i could put in if it had a agp slot. The sound is onboard also. So yeap your right on that. i took out the original ME os and put in 98 se, just for the sheer fact that ME sucks canal water. Emachine gave me crap on doing it also, but i achieved it by getting the appropriate drivers and installing them after the fact. So her comp works ok now, but it is so damn slow. maybe im being to harsh on the piece of crap, but i seem to recall my p2 400 working faster than that anchor does. i think i may make the switch, primarily because my other boards with the p2 on them have an agp slot, plus more pci slots also. The E-tower gives a whole whopping 3 pci slots and no agp at all. Plus ive noticed that that damn machine croaks on when it does 2 things at a time, on that note alone i believe the p2 will work better.

Anyways guys thanks for all of your respones, i appreciate them believe me.

Dazza8082

hay i know this is abit off topic, but ive been bouncing this one of the wall with a couple of customers of my own.

take the Xbox right? its basicly a PC, apart from the GPU its not much faster than that PC you have, why not turn it into either a hardware firewall / E-mail server, cheap easy and you'll learn allot about how the world works, or two and a much better idea, turn it in to a media center!

slap it in a small box, put a half decent vga card in one of those all in one jobs, remove all the floppy and CD drives, maybe put in a DVD player, stick a wireless network card in it and hook it up to a TV, you could have it connect to another PC (server in bed room) via wireless and play either streamed movie files, MP3's anything you want, slap a DVD in the slot and you got a instant multi-region DVD player fancy watching a bit of TV, no problem just load up the TV software, what about sorting out your e-mail but you cant be bother to move, just use ICS to connect via the one upstairs, the best bit is, your really not doing much work thats going to stress out the old pc.

and of course its illagal but you could get a emulator and turn it in to a PS2 or an Xbox as well!

only thing is the remote control, we have yet to find somthing thats decent enough to work!