What I find rarely mentioned is that the new Celerons (1.2Ghz and above) should generate less heat than their AMD counterparts because they are based on a 0.13 micron process.
As far as I am aware the AMD products are based on a 0.18 micron process.
Heat was an important consideration for myself, as my emphasis was on having a *quiet* PC, so I did not want to have a million fans running at X,000 RPM just to keep the CPU from becoming a red blob on the motherboard.
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What I find rarely mentioned is that the new Celerons (1.2Ghz and above) should generate less heat than their AMD counterparts because they are based on a 0.13 micron process.
As far as I am aware the AMD products are based on a 0.18 micron process.
Heat was an important consideration for myself, as my emphasis was on having a *quiet* PC, so I did not want to have a million fans running at X,000 RPM just to keep the CPU from becoming a red blob on the motherboard.