Price/ Performance: Celeron Or Cheap Pentium 4?
Don’t let yourself be fooled by pure clock speed. In most of the benchmarks, the Celeron lags considerably behind the Pentium 4. The reason is the smaller L2 cache on the Celeron, which has to get by with only 128 kB. The Pentium 4 based on the Willamette core, on the other hand, has 256 kB. But it’s being phased out in favor of the more modern Northwood core - by refining manufacturing down to 0.13 micrometer structures, Intel has managed to squeeze 512 kB L2 cache onto the chip, which is four times the Celeron’s cache. We used the latest Pentium 4 core for the tests in this article.
Test Setup
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| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Processors | Intel Celeron Willamette, 1.7 GHz Intel Pentium 4 Northwood, 1.7 GHz |
| Motherboards | ABit BD7, i845D chipset |
| RAM | 256 MB PC266 DDR-SDRAM, CL2, Corsair Micro |
| Hard Drive | IBM DeskStar 60 GXP, IC35L040,40 GB, 7,200 rpm, 2 MB Cache |
| Other Hardware | |
| Network Card | 3COM 3C905TX-B, 100 MBit |
| Graphics Card | ABit Siluro GF3nVIDIA GeForce 3, 64 MB DDR-RAM |
| Drivers & Software | |
| Graphics Driver | nVIDIA Detonator 4 Series, V 28.32 WHQL |
| Chipset Driver | Intel INF-Update 3.20.1008Intel Application Accelerator 2.2VIA 4in1 4.37 |
| DirectX Version | 8.1 |
| OS | Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 3, SRP1 |
| Benchmarks & Settings | |
| Quake III Arena | Retail Version 1.16command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Benchmark Using DEMO001 und NV15DEMO |
| 3DMark 2001 SE | Default Settings, 1024x768x16 |
| SiSoft Sandra 2002 | Professional EditionCPU Arithmetic BenchmarkCPU Multimedia BenchmarkMemory Benchmark |
| PCMark2002 | CPU & Memory Benchmarks |
| BAPCo SYSmark2002 | Office Productivity/ Internet Content Productivity |
| Lame | MP3 Encoding, Version 3.89MMX |
| WinACE | 2.11, 178 MB WAV FileBest compression, 4096 kB dictionary |
| Xmpeg 4.5 / Divx 5 Pro | MPEG-4 EncodingDivX 5.01 Pro (YV12)Compression/quality : SlowestData Rate : 780 kbitFormat : 720x576 Pixel@25 fps150 MB VOB file, no Audio |
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