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The Celeron Casts Aside Its Crutches
A number of people have written in regarding AnandTech's
new Celeron 800 review. Why does this one matter? This is the first Celereon to use a 100 Mhz FSB, rather then the 66 Mhz FSB [?] it has been hobbled with - the competition between the Duron and Celeron heats up.
But its slower than the 600 Mhz Celeron... right?? Maybe if we recompile all our programs......
100mhz FSB, great. Unfortunatly, the duron still runs at 100mhz double-data-rate, or basicly 200mhz. The only thing holding it back (from the "cheap computer" segment) was a good integrated chipset, and they are becomming available right now. Not to mention the insane prices: while the 800mhz part isn't listed on pricewatch yet, the 766mhz celeron is $155. Actually if you search for the 800mhz celeron specificly, you will get two listing: $202 or $204. While at the same time you can purchase a 900mhz Athlon Thunderbird for $137, or a 1ghz for $169.
Nice knowing you Intel.
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Although we (as in all hardware geeks) know that the Duron is much faster, I'm sure that the Celeron 800 will still be sold very well. The same goes for the Pentium 4, even though it's clear that the Thunderbird is faster and cheaper on most points.
Why you ask? Simple. Ask 100 random people what the difference is between Intel and AMD and the majority won't even know what AMD is.
I'm surprised this article wasn't labeled, "The Celeron Casts Aside its second set of crutches." The first set of crutches for the original Celeron was the lack of cache! Although, the lack of cache was more like a crippling shot to the groin with a nipple twist on the side.
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FYI, ZDNet has an article here.
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The competition heats up? Yeah right. On every single one of the (many) tests Anand ran, the Duron 800 beat the Celeron 800. Every single one. On most of them, the Duron _600_ beat it!! But that's OK, right, Celerons are cheap CPUs, not fast CPUs, I hear you say?
(shuffles over to www.pricewatch.com)
No price for a Celeron 800. But a 766 costs $155. And the Durons? $71 for an 800. $47 for a 600. What a miserable piece of shit this Celeron 800 is, 100MHz FSB or no.
According to pricewatch, a KT133 + Duron 700 costs $147, whereas a Celeron 800 costs $202, so you'd save a bit of time just buying a new Celeron, or for less money and an extra half an hour, you'll get a better processor and a motherboard together.