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"Budget" Chips go Head-to-Head
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."
They didn't even tackle the the Green Celeron. After all, Celeron is derived from the latin word 'celer', meaning speed. Of course, celery is the fastest of all vegetables.
On a serious note, people, including myself, are starting to worry about power consumption. I'd like to pick up a low power device for a BSD gateway.
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You're comparing a processor that runs at well over 2GHz and goes head to head with P4-2.4GHz chips to a P3-500? In that case, my 1 GHz Via C3 Nehemiah processor scores well above my 90 MHz Pentium.
If anyone here didn't already know this, please raise your hand...
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Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
The article had 3, yes 3, banner ads for AMD when I viewed it.
Conspiracy mod ~ON~
So to summarize the parent. Intel big, lots-o-bucks. AMD small, greater risk, "better" product. Sometimes money wins over quality
Well, with economic brilliance such as this, we all know who'll be taking over for Greenspan when he retires.
I agree. G5s all round then. :-)
Cheers,
Ian
But Intel will continue to bully themselves deeper into markets, threatening new chip makers and computer manufactorers with it's giant weight.
HURRY!! Someone slap them on the wrist!!!
*DrugCheese rants*
1833 MHz, actually (if it's the Barton core 2500+). AMD+ Marketing+ strikes again!
In that case, my 1 GHz Via C3 Nehemiah processor scores well above my 90 MHz Pentium.
Well, it does, doesn't it? And you love that CPU for it, don't you? :-)
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(Page 8) is this correct? 18.4 Seconds to compile QuakeIII Arena Source Code on a 2600+ ? Maybe it's right, but I was expecting it to be longer.
Damn that's fast - all those months/years of id's hard work, only to compile in 18 seconds on a budget processor....
No Norm, those are your safety glasses; I'll wear my own thanks...
I've just received 5 P4 celery systems to install as part of a small cluster. The install is going down today.
Damn you Slashdot and Anandtech....
> I'm running an AMD K6 1.1 GhZ chip
Ladies and gentlemen, our new overclocking champion!
I think it's time to get that 3.2GHz processor and regain my confidence!
>but I know the thing will work and NEVER crash.
Unless you need to divide numbers.
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Its depressing when the "low end of the CPU market" beats all four of your machines.
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