Intel Celeron 2.20 GHz Processor

Celeron is P4 with much lesser...

Strengths: overclocks like nobodys business, quad pumped, 0.13micron design, about half as large as AXP, cheap

Weakness: cache

Celeron is P4 with much lesser cache (128K vs 512K). You can overclock it and find a 'zone' for your self (fast means hot, so thats the tradeoff).

MP3 encoding trails AXP (my friends system), but MPEG2 encoding is visibly faster on the Celeron system. 400MHz FSB, Higher memory bus speed are among the reasons.

Great Value for money (especially if you buy a combination MBoard)

By nsrkrishna - Aug 20, 2003

I bought this CPU after AMD...

Strengths: quality / low temperature

Weakness: low cache really afect performance

I bought this CPU after AMD XP1500+ (which i used for year and half). Well i wanted p4 (512Kb cache) but for financial reasons i took this one. Well it performs very well and stable as you would expect from intel. But i was amazed to see that it couldnt catch up with my XP1500+ ? which had SDRAM, and this cely had 512md 333Mhz DDR. I did all kinds of test, sisoft sandra got 4150 index (on MSI 645...
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I bought this CPU after AMD XP1500+ (which i used for year and half). Well i wanted p4 (512Kb cache) but for financial reasons i took this one. Well it performs very well and stable as you would expect from intel. But i was amazed to see that it couldnt catch up with my XP1500+ ? which had SDRAM, and this cely had 512md 333Mhz DDR. I did all kinds of test, sisoft sandra got 4150 index (on MSI 645 combo mainboard), then i compared linux kernel compilation with AMD XP1500+ and results were: AMD got it in 6 minutes (AMDXP1500+ 256MB SDRAM) and this Cely (512mb DDR) got it in 7 minutes and 15 seconds? Also amd got faster in mp3 encoding and some other tests. I havent tried rendering i guess it would beat AMD (other reviews show that). But overall i am very satisfied with this CPU. When you have pogram that uses SSE2 instructions and high optimization it is ULTRA fast, but in regular i386 instrucions AMD beats it by far (thanks to cache i think). But for this price, u cant get better taste of p4 CPU. I overclocked it to 2750Mhz and it worked stable. Overclocked at this speed it is really different story. It outperformed AMD, but still, there wasnt any incredible improvement, but satisfactory. So buy this baby, overclock it and u'll be very satisfied. If not, buy a real p4, but again i must mention that by price/performance it is better bargain.

By dmc_dtc - Jun 10, 2003