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"Budget" Chips go Head-to-Head

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the duking-it-out dept.

StewedSquirrel writes "Anandtech has published an article taking a look at the low-end of the CPU market today. It takes Intel's newest Celeron processors against the AthlonXP and Duron with a Pentium 4 1.8GHz thrown in for comparison. All of these processors will cost you under $120, but the article shows that the old Duron (at barely $40) can out-perform Intel chips costing nearly 3x as much. In addition, it shows that the performance of the Athlon XP is head and shoulders above the Celeron processors, while costing roughly the same."

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  1. AMD blows by y2dt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anand's site is so biased towards AMD it makes me sick.

    Back in the day I used to read his site all the time. All he did was was rave about the K6 processor so I put togethor several systems for myself and friends.

    What pieces of shit! All kinds of compatability issues with my Lucent win-modems, Creative soundcards, and 3dfx or nvidia cards. Their processors also run *way* hotter than Intels'.

    2 of uncles have had the same experiences more recently with Althlon processors. They both swear that they'll never use AMD again and neither will I!

    My roomate in college had an AMD system that blew out its motherboard once a year. My trusty Intel P3 lasted all 4 yrs.

    I'd much rahter pay more money and get reliable Intel quality. To hell with AMD!

    (P.S. I'm not trolling or flaming, I'm talking out of many bad personal experiences. YMMV)