Posts by Joshua May

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Times for Celeron CPU's (Message 877) Posted 1 Oct 2005 by Joshua May Post: You can build a faster machine for less money if you'd go with a Sempron socket 754 CPU. The latest version has all the bell en whistles of the AMD64, but with a smaller cache. The socket754/939 CPU's are very cool CPU's, especialy when compared to P4/Celeron's based on the Prescott core. I have to agree with the cooling issue. I have a Pentium 4 630 (3 Ghz) overclocked to 3.152 Ghz at load and it runs around 60C, even with a big giant Zalman 120mm CPU cooler and arctic silver thermal paste. Then again, my machine is built to be quiet, not cool, so all my fans run at low speeds. That aside though, 55-60C is normal for a Prescott P4 on stock cooling, as opposed to something like 10C lower on the San Diego AMD's