Interesting Budget Review.

[lhgpoobaa]

Incase this hasnt been posted before:
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=4" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=4</A>
For those of us that cant afford dual opteron gaming rigs.

Telling performance
Conclusion: Intel REALLY need to do something about their celleron.
2.6Ghz, 128k L2 and 400fsb really dont cut it anymore.


<b>My Computer is so powerful Sauron Desires
it and mortal men covet it, My Precioussssssss!

Regards,
Mr no integrity coward.</b> <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by lhgpoobaa on 12/09/03 11:41 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[baldurga]

Yes, it only confirms what everybody knows. But I was surprised even a Duron can beat a lot higher clocked Celeron!

Question is, the is anybody who builds his own computer that thinks on a Celly as a REAL option???

I am sure these CPU are sold 99% to big system integrators for building cheap PCs that sound powerfull. "With Intel Extreme Graphics 2 inside!" :lol:


Still looking for a <b>good online retailer</b> in Spain :frown:

 

[ytoledano]

Yeah, the MHZ is everything approach, but don't worry, give it time... Even the biggest idiots will learn.

Is 2^33634943-1 prime? (more than 10Mil digits @73.31%) I will know in 10 days when <A HREF="http://www.mersenne.org" target="_new">Prime95</A> finishes checking!

 

[lhgpoobaa]

lol yeah.

What i did find suprising was that with semi decent ram (i.e. not PC2100 or sdram) the celleron still failed to shine in <b>anything</b>!

I would have thought there was something the sheer Mhz would make up for. something simple.

what a waste

<b>My Computer is so powerful Sauron Desires
it and mortal men covet it, My Precioussssssss!

Regards,
Mr no integrity coward.</b>

 

[Crashman]

No, people won't learn. They still buy SUV's for commuting to work, they still buy SFF PC's, Emachines, Hewlett Packards, etc (all examples of the same type of system).

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[Spitfire_x86]

I've posted it before....

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[Spitfire_x86]

I think nForce2 + AXP based SFF PC's are quite good, at least much better than these Celerons.

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[Crashman]

I can get an Emachines XP2400+ system for $369. I just fixed an HP with i865G chipset, it had a P4.

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[CaptainNemo]

What's yer beef with SFF PCs? If I wanted a machine just for web surfing and stuff (and consequently from stopping my main PC from being infiltrated with .net crap), then I rather have an SFF than a big ugly box.

"Some mice have two buttons. Macintosh has one. So it's extremely difficult to push the wrong button." - Apple ad. circa 1984.

 

[HardWareBoss]

What was wrong? Psu?

 

[Crashman]

Then buy yourself a book-sized PC, it's the smallest form factor.

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[Crashman]

No, they bought the system as a customer return with the drive formatted, the system backup partition was gone, and they couldn't find the drivers online.

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