Which is faster?

[Hercules]

WHich is faster, AMD Athlon 2400+ or Intel Pentium Celeron 2.4 ghz?
Also on the AMD Motherboard there are 3 ram stations, the Intel's Motherboar only has 2...
Which will work better and faster?

[MattxMosh]

The Athlon. Celerons are garbage.

[Corrosion]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Hercules]

I just noticed that the Athlon was a 1.8 ghz i think, and i tried making it 2.4, but as soon as it starts it crashes. Is it still faster? Cos now i have 768 mb ram (1 x 512, 1 x 256) on my intel celeron and a hercules 9600pro, PS is still like really laggy.

Any tips for making the Athlon into 2.4? Or anything :P

[Rbstr]

ok the Athlon does more per clock cycle than the Cellron, ok?

so 2400+ Athlon is roughly equivelent to a 2400 mhz(2.4ghz) Pentium 4(note cellrons are slower than Pentium 4's of the same clock speed) and a 3200+ is about the same as a 3.2ghz Pentium 4.

Over clocking a CPU to almost twice it's speed(going from 1.8 to 2.4 as you tried to do) will not work for any reasonable amount of time unless you decided to LN2 cool it, and that only works short term.

Basicaly to make PS better you should get another stick of 512 ram, stick it in the AMD mobo with the other 512 stick, and the 9800pro and the Athlon 2400+. you should see some reasonable improvment.

[Electrofreak]

Yeah basically what Rob said. The Athlon works at 1.8 but does the same amount of processing as the 2.4 Intel. It simply does about 33% more work per mhz than the Intel.

Having a good CPU will help PlanetSide, but what PS REALLY needs is a good CPU AND about a gig of good RAM. You will probably want PC3200 DDR ram, CAS timings of 2.5 or lower. Also, having an even number of RAM sticks helps because your system can run them in a faster mode that way.

[SecondRaven]

Erm...ya what he said...but i bet my P1-133 with 16mb or ram could beat it !