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why celeron is not good? or is it good
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I have heard that Celeron CPU is not good. Why Celeron CPU does have good name?? I have found this CPU is good price and the spec of this CPU is good, so why people do not like it. Intel Celeron 2.4 FSB 400 128k C$(102) Canadian I want to build a pc that is used for basic things (internet + office) thanks a lot. |
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esara wrote:
Hi I have heard that Celeron CPU is not good. Why Celeron CPU does have good name?? I have found this CPU is good price and the spec of this CPU is good, so why people do not like it. What do you mean the "spec" of this CPU is good? If you mean MHz, then score one for Intel marketing. If you mean SPEC CPU benchmarks, then you're just mistaken. You can get an Athlon XP 2500 for significantly less money than a Celeron 2.4GHz. But performance-wise, the Athlon blows away the Celeron. You mention that the PC would be for general office and internet work. Here's a benchmark comparing the Celeron 2.4GHz to other chips: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=4 Even the lowest-end AMD Duron 1.6 chip beats the Celeron. -WD |
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"esara" wrote in message om... Hi I have heard that Celeron CPU is not good. Why Celeron CPU does have good name?? I have found this CPU is good price and the spec of this CPU is good, so why people do not like it. Intel Celeron 2.4 FSB 400 128k C$(102) Canadian I want to build a pc that is used for basic things (internet + office) thanks a lot. The Celeron is what is commonly known as a crippled chip. It is manufactured to be cheap to buy. They do this by leaving out some of the technology that makes a better chip perform faster and more efficiently. The Celeron is perfect for low power internet machines and that is what they are sold for. Just don't expect any performance out of the thing. Load a behemoth like the Encyclopedia Britannica and you can make lunch while you wait for it to load. The other post is correct, you can build a much better performing machine for the same money if you look a alternate chips. |
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typical he didn't ask for a comparison of a celery to an amd. but
you guys just can't resists a sales pitch.... It matters on what the heck your going to do with it. office word processing? Doing a little web surfing and email...go for it "Will Dormann" wrote in message ... esara wrote: Hi I have heard that Celeron CPU is not good. Why Celeron CPU does have good name?? I have found this CPU is good price and the spec of this CPU is good, so why people do not like it. What do you mean the "spec" of this CPU is good? If you mean MHz, then score one for Intel marketing. If you mean SPEC CPU benchmarks, then you're just mistaken. You can get an Athlon XP 2500 for significantly less money than a Celeron 2.4GHz. But performance-wise, the Athlon blows away the Celeron. You mention that the PC would be for general office and internet work. Here's a benchmark comparing the Celeron 2.4GHz to other chips: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=4 Even the lowest-end AMD Duron 1.6 chip beats the Celeron. -WD |
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JAD wrote:
typical he didn't ask for a comparison of a celery to an amd. but you guys just can't resists a sales pitch.... The OP asked why people don't like the Celeron. I replied, indicating that it is slower *and* more expensive than the competition. (AMD) It's fact, not propaganda nor a sales pitch. It matters on what the heck your going to do with it. office word processing? Doing a little web surfing and email...go for it From the benchmark I posted: "For the Business version of the test, this involves surfing the internet, using Office, and running a handful of other common utilities and programs." Sounds pretty close to what the OP had intended for the machine. -WD |
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"JAD" wrote in message hlink.net... typical he didn't ask for a comparison of a celery to an amd. but you guys just can't resists a sales pitch.... It matters on what the heck your going to do with it. office word processing? Doing a little web surfing and email...go for it A quote from the article referred to, in regards to scores on Business Winstone 2004: "What's also important to note is that a score of a 10.0 here is about the performance level of a 1GHz Pentium III, which should help you put the Celeron's performance in perspective." Me writing: The Celeron 2.6GHz scored 13.7. The Pentium4 1.8GHz scored 15.4. The Athlon 1.83GHz scored 20.1. (PR rating 2500+) Yes, the Celeron does suck and it is not worth having when so much better performance can be had for equal or less money. |
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BP wrote:
"esara" wrote in message om... Hi I have heard that Celeron CPU is not good. Why Celeron CPU does have good name?? I have found this CPU is good price and the spec of this CPU is good, so why people do not like it. Intel Celeron 2.4 FSB 400 128k C$(102) Canadian I want to build a pc that is used for basic things (internet + office) thanks a lot. The Celeron is what is commonly known as a crippled chip. It is manufactured to be cheap to buy. They do this by leaving out some of the technology that makes a better chip perform faster and more efficiently. The Celeron is perfect for low power internet machines and that is what they are sold for. Just don't expect any performance out of the thing. Load a behemoth like the Encyclopedia Britannica and you can make lunch while you wait for it to load. The other post is correct, you can build a much better performing machine for the same money if you look a alternate chips. BUT the Celeron is easier to install as its die is protected by the shield whereas the Athlons' dies lie open... waiting to be damaged;-) So it's either a Pentium/Celeron or a (equally shielded) Athlon 64... Gérard |
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:17:57 +0200, Gerard Coorne
wrote: BP wrote: SNIP The other post is correct, you can build a much better performing machine for the same money if you look a alternate chips. BUT the Celeron is easier to install as its die is protected by the shield whereas the Athlons' dies lie open... waiting to be damaged;-) So it's either a Pentium/Celeron or a (equally shielded) Athlon 64... - Oh my G...!!! Is this the fault of some PC-rag? Well, they've played a dirty trick on you then, denying you the brilliant and utterly outstanding value of AMD socket A cpus, for fear of nothing. Only thing it takes to successfully build a socket A, is less than sloppiness and violence when mounting the heatsink, and following the instructions. (And Celeron is not a sane choice for a builder.) ancra |
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Gerard Coorne wrote:
BP wrote: "esara" wrote in message om... Hi I have heard that Celeron CPU is not good. Why Celeron CPU does have good name?? I have found this CPU is good price and the spec of this CPU is good, so why people do not like it. Intel Celeron 2.4 FSB 400 128k C$(102) Canadian I want to build a pc that is used for basic things (internet + office) thanks a lot. The Celeron is what is commonly known as a crippled chip. It is manufactured to be cheap to buy. They do this by leaving out some of the technology that makes a better chip perform faster and more efficiently. The Celeron is perfect for low power internet machines and that is what they are sold for. Just don't expect any performance out of the thing. Load a behemoth like the Encyclopedia Britannica and you can make lunch while you wait for it to load. The other post is correct, you can build a much better performing machine for the same money if you look a alternate chips. BUT the Celeron is easier to install as its die is protected by the shield whereas the Athlons' dies lie open... waiting to be damaged;-) Only if you're a cak-handed gorilla. Assuming you have have reasonable control over your own limbs and can tell the difference between a screwdriver and a chainsaw you shouldn't have a problem. So it's either a Pentium/Celeron or a (equally shielded) Athlon 64... Gérard |
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