Ultra Mega Soopa Doopa Future PC comming up!

this site has decent PC hardware predictions, but the thing that caught my eye was the new celleron!!!!

inamgine this folks!

Socket 478 - goin good so far
Celleron 1.8Ghz - allright, but what core design?
0.18 micron p4 core design - hmmmmmm
400fsb - hmmm
cache reduced to 128k - ewwww

and i can see it now!!! big companies gleefully mating that crippled P4 to a lovely 845 mobo with glorious PC133 sdram (at cas 3 for spice),
topped off with a tnt2, geforceMX or integrated graphics.

the sad thing is it WILL happen with compac or dell or whatever. u know it will :-(



The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD.

noooo
think it just runs off a 1/3 divider
i.e. 100 quad pumped = 400
400/3 = 133.3333


but still, i can see crap loads of people seeing the magical label saying 1.8Ghz... going WOW... buying... then finding out it truly sucks.

The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD.

What a beauty! Hmm, it might just be under the performance of a 1.2GHz Celly Tually.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

What are people going to say when they find out that a 1.8GHz Celeron is slower than a 1.3GHz Celeron?

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

what do u mean 'whats the point'????

its a

C E L L E R O N

does that word mean anything to u?
i betcha oddles of money they are gonna do like they have in the past... just keep churning out the higher rated CPU but with half the cache disabled (or flawed).

who knows... maybe they allready have a big bin of flawed p4 cpu's just ready to be rebadged as cellerons.

i wonder however about performance...
inevitably the P4-cellery will be mated with SDRAM is the majority of systems...
how will these stack up against the older tully based celleron??? (which has more cache incidentally)


The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD.

If you throw it off a building, will it be booted up before it hits the ground or is the gravitation-acceleration (or however you write this in English) faster?

My case has so many fans that it hovers above the ground .

i have to admit there are some things about the P4 i really like...

impossible to screw up heatsink attachment
heatspreader
thermal protection
quad pumped bus
sse2

however taking off half the cache, or worse yet, just disabling half, aint good math for the poor end consumer.

on the up side, at least Current P4 owners know that they havent quite got a celleron :-)

i wonder at the benchmarks...
duron 1.4/athlon 1.4/celleron 1.4 (0.13 p3 core)/1.8 p4 celleron.


The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD.

ummm.... no?
we are serious! :-P

to me that celleron will be the pinacle of hollowHertz, or AirHertz... Max Mhz, minimum possible performance.

*thinks* building my ultimate hollowhertz system here:

P4 cellery 1.8Ghz with 128k L2 cache
845 mobo with 12mb integrated graphics & onboard sound.
128mb PC133 cas 3 sdram
5400rpm HDD

if i ever won a system like that in a raffle i would be embarrised to resell it... unless someone i hated wanted it ;-)

The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD.