Battling Brothers: Celeron vs. Pentium 4

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Data Compression - WinAce 2.11

MPEG-4 Encoding: Flask 5.01

It makes no difference whether you have a Pentium 4 or a Celeron under the hood when processing video streams - the larger cache on the P4 hardly matters.

MP3 Encoding: LAME 3.92

With a Pentium 4, Lame converts WAV music files into compressed MP3s somewhat faster than with a Celeron.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.