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In a place known as alt.games.quake2, n...@spam.com (Pekka) was running
around screaming something about "Re: Celeron vs. P3 for gaming?".
Before the men in white coats arrived and took him away, he managed to
say the following:
>In article <8urj96$1f0$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, qwer...@my-deja.com says...
>>
>>I can't take it any more, the P166 is going to server duty and I'm
>>building a new system.  My question is this:  I have been advised by
>>several game-junky friends that it's not worth the extra $ to get a P3
>>chip over a minimum 600mHz Celeron.  True of not? 

It's true that the Pentium 3 is "expensive". But it _is_ faster than
the Celeron by 10-30%, depending on what you're doing with it. For
gaming, the P3 is definitively better of the two. A P3- Coppermine 600
is about as fast as a Celemine overclocked to 850 MHZ...

>Cause I certainly have
>>better things to do with the extra bucks.  I just want something that
>>won't choke on wide-open maps with lots of models (ie- arena-type
>>railgun only servers).  Thanks!!
>>
>Buy Duron. It's cheaper and way much faster than Celerons. Almost beats P3 
>too... ANd with the extra bucks u can buy nice video card. I'd recommend some 
>Geforce2 MX card, good performance and reasonable price.

He's right, listen to him ;-) 
Whatever you do, go for an AMD chip anyway - they're good nowdays(the
athlon is quite a leap from the K6 series of CPUs...), and offer by
far the best bang for the buck. You can get an Athlon TB 800 quite a
lot cheaper than a P3-800, and the Athlon is even a tad bit faster...
The Duron outperforms the celeron by a lot (IIRC it was according to
tests about 0-10% slower than an Athlon on the same clock speed), and
is by far the best choice of the current processors on the market if
you're looking for the "best performance with lowest
investment"-processor...

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