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Customer walks into the computer store and says that their Celeron computer has fried. That they have owned several Celeron computers and it has always done the same thing but their Pentium 4 computers haven't ever fried. They say they keep their house at 78-80F (must wan't to save on their electric bill) and they complain the same thing about Semprons. They claim to use identical cooling solutions on their Celeron and Pentium systems.

I remember someone telling me several years ago that they would never buy a Celeron because it overheats. I have done Google searches and such and I can't seem to find evidence of this. Do you guys know if there is any truth to this claim? Website articles, whitepapers, something would be greatly helpful.

Thanks.

Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 261 Location: WisConSin

Celerons depending on model may run hotter in comparison to another specific model of P4 (and vice versa) but the differences are moot.

The sempron Socket A and A64 versions of semprons sometimes get mixed up one does run hotter than the other.

One common factor is that celerons tend to get stuck with VERY VERY crappy components, crap motherboard, crap ram, crap power supply. Add that together and yes a name brand celeron with die more often than a decently configured P4.

Best way to find out and compare different chips would be to find a website that lists the power dissapation, wattage and amperage. There was a site a while back that just did that but I no longer have it in my favorites, someone else here probably knows.

Good Luck