First post, by Keeper95
Hi. I have a lga775 motherboard lying around and a Pentium4 clocked at 3.4 Ghz. I have concerns that it might be overkill for late 90's, should be fine for newer games, but map scrolling in some older games is abnormally fast, and on top of that it's quite hot, with a TDP of 86W. I've been looking into Celeron 420, it runs a lot cooler (35W) and at lower clock speed of 1.6 Ghz. Will the Celeron be a sweet spot between not being too fast for the late 90s and still being fast enough for Far Cry and DOOM 3 era games? Thanks.
Also, will Celeron bottleneck the FX 5700LE 128bit?