"Budget" Chips go Head-to-Head

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday December 5, 2003 @01:02AM 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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I haven't used an Intel in years by keath_milligan · 2003-12-05 01:21 · Score: 1, Redundant

At home anyway. This bears out my experience with Intel vs. AMD. The only difference I've seen in equivilently performing CPUs is the 2x price tag on the Intel.