Vishwanath V writes:
Well, If u can burn u're CD while listen to music and also convert mpeg to Divx and surfing the NET too,u can call a celeron a processor. On My Athlon 1800+ machine thses tasks r trivial. So may be u shud try all these and then rethink. So please start using u're CPU cycles ;)
Visu
AFAIK there will be disk I/O / bus contention. You are * reading data (mpeg to divx) from HDD. * reading data (for writing to CD) from HDD. * writing to browser cache while surfing.
mpeg to divx will be the only one which will take up quite a lot of CPU cycles. Here the celeron which has less cache than Athlon will take a beating. But surfing is mainly network intensive and not CPU intensive. Also for CD writing only making the iso image while writing onto disk takes some CPU cycles (but not much). I don't see why the last two factors should depend much on the CPU.
All in all I think both celeron and Athlon are both good value for money. but Athlon definitely has the edge.
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