Is using a P3 Celeron bad for video editing?

[videohalp]

Problems with my main computer. Do not plan to get replacement parts until Boxing Day. So I have to fall back to my Pentium 3 Celeron. Since Celerons are not for performance, would it be bad if I used it for 2-4 hours on 100% CPU usage?

[deadrats]

Problems with my main computer. Do not plan to get replacement parts until Boxing Day. So I have to fall back to my Pentium 3 Celeron. Since Celerons are not for performance, would it be bad if I used it for 2-4 hours on 100% CPU usage?

bad in what way? there's no harm in running the cpu at 100% load for 2-4 hours so long as it's properly cooled, people do it all the time. i do think you're kidding yourself if you think that a P3 based celeron is going to be sufficient for video editing, especially if you think that it's only going to take 2-4 hours to render out a project, it can take a fairly modern cpu that long to render out a Full D1 spec movie, depending on filters and encoder used, i think you will be measuring your encoding times in days.

[jagabo]

Any properly cooled PC should be able to run at 100 percent CPU usage indefinitely.

[Clockwork]

Boxing Day is about 4 weeks away.

I think you'll need 4 weeks to convert anything on a PIII Celeron...

[mammo1789]

Any properly cooled PC should be able to run at 100 percent CPU usage indefinitely.

Don't forget and properly configured (especially if it is overclocked, meaning voltage,timings of the RAM memory and so on ),and even then, software ( and operating system and programs running av and so on) has to be rock stable to use it couple of days in a row non stop. It happened that prime 95 had some versions that were very unstable and bring people to wrong conclusions that their pc was not stable.

From my experience memory is more prone to instability ( during render or video editing especially beasts like sony vegas or adobe premiere) and cause of program crashes than the cpu it self.

Copermine 3 Celeron is much more crippled cpu then pentium 3 ( because of the absence of l2 cashe, but that also means higher overclock ) I still have 2 pc's with pentium 3 one regular and one laptop) and besides surfing or word processing you are pretty limited of what can you do with it ( and these configuration's have 512 SD RAM max and more common 256) and it is too low for today's programs or filters that you might use.
So celeron 3 is pretty useless even if you manage to get past 1ghz ( I am highly doubtful)

[themaster1]

Pentium 3 wow, we're talking about antiquities

Personnally i have recently restored 2 pcs taken from a public dump, a Celeron D 330 (2ghz, pentium 4 family) & Athlon 2800+ (2ghz) sold circa 2004 they're kinda slow i can do a little avisynth filtering though

If i had a decent gfx it would be much better, watchin a dvd takes most of the resources...