[Sarugaki]

Long story short, the PC I normally use to console into my networking equipment took a huge Indian food-inspired dump earlier this week. The heatsink snapped off the retention bracket and the CPU overheated to the point of damage while I was away at work one day. So now I must get a replacement.

My question is, which processor is better for what I'm going to use this PC for? I don't pull down a lot of money so the cheaper, the better; but I don't want to deal with a pain either. These are the things I'll do with the PC:

- Use it to console into my networking equipment
- Occasionally access from work/school remotely to pick up files from home
- I might install a TV tuner for cable television

So will a Celeron processor be good enough for this stuff, or should I just throw a few more dollars in for a Pentium 4?

Heck, if you have suggestions for AMD processors, too, I'll consider. I've only used Intel processors in my computers, but I'm sure AMD isn't too much different, right?

 

[craigwatanabe]

First off you cannot substitute an AMD processor for an Intel processor.

That said typically a Pentium processor is much faster and better than a Celeron. The difference is the Cache capacity. For what you're doing, you can probably stick with a Celeron. What socket size is your motherboard?

 

[Sarugaki]

First off you cannot substitute an AMD processor for an Intel processor.

That said typically a Pentium processor is much faster and better than a Celeron. The difference is the Cache capacity. For what you're doing, you can probably stick with a Celeron. What socket size is your motherboard?

I'm just getting a replacement. I'm going to choose a processor first and then build onward from that.