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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. They missed the green one! by swordboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  2. Well, Duh... by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny

    If anyone here didn't already know this, please raise your hand...

    Anyone???

    Anyone at all???

    Hello???

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  3. No wonder AMD won by gyp · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article had 3, yes 3, banner ads for AMD when I viewed it.

    Conspiracy mod ~ON~

  4. Re:It's clear... by mccalli · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's time for people to stop rewarding the Intel marketing machine, and start buying the best tech...

    I agree. G5s all round then. :-)

    Cheers,
    Ian

  5. Re:axp2500+ by richie2000 · · Score: 3, Funny
    You're comparing a processor that runs at well over 2GHz

    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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  6. Re:Upgrades not always necesary... by kavau · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well, I put together a nice machine for myself with a 2.4GHz Pentium this summer. Now, every time I browse through the ads that clog my mailbox, I feel so.. well, out of date! I used to be a sociable geek, but now I don't dare to talk about computer hardware anymore, because I fear the topic of CPUs might come up. If people ask me about my processor speed, I usually just mumble something under my breath. If I had only gone with the 2.8GHz model...

    I think it's time to get that 3.2GHz processor and regain my confidence!

  7. *sigh* by mntgomery · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its depressing when the "low end of the CPU market" beats all four of your machines.

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