P2 or Celeron?

[The Hazman]

I'm gonna buy a new cpu, and I can get a second hand Pentium 2 350 for about the same price as I can get a Celeron 400.

Still not sure which one to get, need advice!

[Alien]

I'd go with Celery 400. It is faster. You might have to flash your bios to get it to work with your MB.

[Roy]

Celerons get better marks in some tests.

Pentiums are more powerful overall.

The Celeron probably will overclock higher than the Pentium because of the 4.0 multiplier.

Then again, if the P-II 350 was made before August 14, 1998, it should accept different multipliers. This opens up more possibilities.

[Isos]

Celeron 400 multiplier is 6.0

A Celeron with 128 cache clock the same as P2 might post a faster result if the test is a small program that gets all of it data in the cache. Graphics programs tend to use very large data that the 128 cache will most likely have a miss. Those types of applications, benefit most from a P2.