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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. 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~

  3. 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