AMD Athlon XP 1800+ to a Intel Celeron D 2.8 Big Diff?
Off topic a bit but will Battle feild 2142 run decently (lowest quality/ resolution) with that new Intel, 1Gb of ram, and a Geforce 6200 256Mb
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I will expect your new system to perform only marginally better than your old system. My reasoning is as thus:
The 1.8+GHz aproximate rating for the AMD is less than the 2.8GHz of your new computer. It is an aproximate 50% gain in speed right there.
(You don't say whether the 1800+ chip was a Duron or not. I will assume not)
BUT
The Intel chip IS a celeron which has one major failing that slows it down compared to normal AMD and Intel chips - the amount of available L1 and L2 cache. Cache is a kind of extremely fast memmory built right into the actual CPU chip. RAM is a slower sort of memmory for storing more longterm parts of the program you are running.
Well, the Celeron was always a little short on cache, which slows it down 10-20% in some cases compared to the normal AMD or Intel chips.
SO you total speed gain will probably be about the 35% range I'm guessing. That's definitely an increase, but not huge.
Not much difference. imho.
Should...although Celeron's are not good for gaming in general.
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There will not necessarily be a huge difference, as the Celeron is a budget processor with half the Cache memory as the AMD processor.
But, since you will have to reinstall windows due to the motherboard swap, you will notice a marked increase in performance.
The game should run pretty well at that quality and resolution setting, considering you are exceeding the minimum recommendations of the game.
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