New Celeron D Core gets a Speed Boost

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday June 28, 2004 @04:11AM from the new-life-into-old-lines dept.

qtothemax writes "The new Celeron core was released on the 25th. The processor, using Intel's new model number naming convention, looks to be quite a bit faster than the old core. The new core is based on the 90nm Prescott, which offers respectable performance, compared to the very slow Northwood based Celeron. It features a 256kB L2 cache, and a 533mhz FSB. Looks like Prescott's longer pipeline is more then offset by the better branch prediction and most importantly the doubled cache when it comes to the smaller cached Celeron. This Celeron may be able to compete with AMD's offerings based on more then name brand alone. Reviews and benchmarks are at Anandtech. I couldn't find any other good reviews, as budget chips rarely generate much excitement."

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What's The Point? by monkeyman_67156 · 2004-06-28 04:13 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Does anyone at slashdot actually use a Celeron, rather than, say, some variant of an Athalon XP?
1. Re:What's The Point? by TheRealMindChild · 2004-06-28 05:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Even more so, WHY do people insist on correcting spelling, especially on the internet? If we did the same for grammer, both typed and spoken, all we would be doing is having flame wars about it. You KNOW what he meant... so leave it at that.
  
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Re:In Other News... by Orgazmus · 2004-06-28 04:37 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Well...
A really good joke is only funny until someone tells you why ;)

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