HOW-TO : Choose a processor for your pc (General Comments on Processors)

Member Name: ryoga75

Product:	General Comments on Processors
Date:	06/10/01 (796 review reads)
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Advantages: The most important piece of a pc, The difference between the three processor are on this opinion

Disadvantages: No one

Hi,
This is my first opinion, and on the result of it, i will decide if to continue to write or not.

So.... if you have to buy a pc, one of the most important piece that you need, is the processor.

It's the "heart" of all, here; every data, every information enter in it, is processed and exit as results.

The faster the processor is, the quicker your pc will be, therefore less time you will have to wait to get results....

Only a few years ago, when class "pentium" appeared on market, the processor was something very expensive and very useful for life of your pc.
Today, processors have a lot of "friends" that help them with their work....
You can find 3d-videocard, cache memory and many many other pieces that really help your processor; but even today, a slow processor, or a not good one, can easily make your pc ready for recycle-bin :) soon!

What about talking about the time when that “pentium” appeared?
Ok...at that time, the Intel's industries, created a chip, the "PENTIUM" that was going to change the life of our pc....
It was very quick, very reliable and that started a new era for the pc.

The project of this new processor, was really superb.....
"This chip has its own brain"....
Why? Because , in this chip, there was a technology that learns from user's operation, so, if the user makes the same sequel of operation twice, it looks forward for the second time the sequel of operation, and it will begin to load ( in dead time ) the operation that the user asked as first.

That was something wonderful.....many newroads were opened with this criteria....BUT a bug was found on the construction of this chip..... an error on the management of number with decimal (at 1*e-13 )...

With this bug, INTEL was nearly to close, because the cost for changing every bugged chip was too expensive.

In the meanwhile, a new house, AMD, began to sell a sort of a chip , so similar to the intel one but with the same problem. The idea to change all processors in the world disappeared, and Intel decided to call this version (the bugged one ) with a new name: CELERON.

Nowadays, we still have the same 3 kinds of processors.... Intel ( with fixed bug ), AMD ( with bug ) and Celeron ( With bug ).

The main difference between these 3 chips is substantially this:
- Intel Chip is the most expensive . But it's quality is greater and there's no known bug.
- Amd is a cheaper version of Intel chip. The only difference is that it has this bug but only on certain operation (it happens very rarely to people who don't work with 3d graphic ).
Its component is very good and very strong.
- Celeron is the cheapest chip.... it's an Intel one, but with the bug on the ( e-13 ) decimal. The good thing about this chip is the price, and the possibility to overclock the speed of the processor.
The overclock (teorically on every kind of chip ) is the art of improving the speed to process any operation of the cpu. For example, if we will buy a Celeron 600Mhz, we can make 600.000.000 of operation per second, but overclocking it to 900Mhz, we can make the chip work at 900.000.000 operation per second.

I said that is teorically possible to make every kind of chip to overclock.

But it's not really so easy…
Intel and Amd, are very weak on the overclock, and often, if you try to overclock them, you can cause your pc to be damaged very seriously ( chip will melt on motherboard ).
The only one that is able to make a good work is Celeron....
Its secret is that Celeron doesn’t use all the speed that it can use....so speeding it up (even with its half) doesn’t make processor to be melted.

For sure, when you try to overclock your processor, you will need some more fan ins
ide your pc, so as not to allow the too high temperature to melt the pieces onto each other.

I don't know much about operation of overclocking, so, you will not find here a practical guide about overclocking.
The reason why i am writing this opinion, is to let me know what skill of English i have, and i believe no one else can tell me better than you can.

My suggestion, if you have to buy a processor, is to look for an AMD or a CELERON one....
To spend double only to have a INTEL, is quite not useful.

I hope that this opinion will be useful for someone....
To all other people....excuse me if i bore you, and thanks a lot if you appreciated my work.

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