How
much do Celerons make baby kittens want to cry?
Last updated 2005.
Synopsis: Celerons (not the Celeron D) are very bad processors and should be avoided. There are many other less expensive better solutions.
I feel it's a little bit of a crime against the consumer to
utterly and completely deceive them into thinking something
false - and our unfortunate Chipzilla friend Intel does this
pretty consistently. Basically take a look below - the Intel
Celeron (not Celeron D) is an absurd
POS excuse for a processor, and I decided I'd throw out some
pretty revealing benchmarks to demonstrate that fact. So yeah,
take a look and remember not to ever buy low-end Intel. EVER.
I don't care how much that naked confounded Will Morton offers
you. He lives in a trailer...in Alabama!
The following are excerpts from
the benchmarks found here
at Anandtech.com.
3D Studio Max - a video rendering benchmark. Normally Intel's
architecture is good at doing video editing/creating/rendering
related tasks. In this case it's the time it takes to
render - so lower is better (less time to do something). Note
the Pentium 4 that's a full 800 mhz slower still beats the
living petunias out of both of the Celerons... and they all lose
to AMD's budget chips of yesterday.
Aquamark 3, a synthetic gaming test that tends to make use
of higher clock rate processors and chips with larger caches.
In this test higher is better - it means you're getting more
frames per second. Again the old Pentium 4 wins over the Celeron
many hundred mhz faster than it, and they all get mopped up
by the Athlons.
A Business Winstone benchmark designed to test general usage
performance of everyday applications that we all know and
use. Higher is better. The Intel chips get schooled
yet again, and once again the old Pentium 4 moons the Celeron
quality crap competition. Oh, for the record, an Athlon XP
1700+ is clocked at 1.47 ghz... almost half that of the craptacular
Celeron 2.6 ghz.
Just another example of Celeron failure. The Athlon wins over
the bottom end Celeron by a pretty significant number, too.
This benchmark is from compilation of Quake 3 Open GL code.
No that's not a game - it's the computer changing one set
of instructions into another set - compiling is a common and
essential task in the world of computing. Lower is better
- it's the amount of time it takes to compile code, so less
is good.
Moral of the story, the old Celeron
generation is a complete and total joke. Friends don't let
friends (or stupid parents) buy Celerons, okay?
I do need to note that the Celeron D (note obnoxious letter on the end) generation is based on
a new architecture and eliminates the majority of the flaws
present in the old Celerons. They still fall short of the
Athlon XP's and Semprons, but generally only marginally. It's
okay to let your comrades purchase those. I myself used one
as a place holder in server at home.
