The New Generation Is Here: Celeron 2.0 GHz, with 0.13 µm

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Processors Intel Celeron Northwood, 2.0 GHzIntel Celeron Willamette, 1.7 GHzIntel Celeron Willamette, 1.8 GHzAMD Athlon XP 1600+, 1900+
Motherboards ABit BD7, i845DDR chipset(Intel)Epox 8K5A2+, VIA KT333 Chipset(AMD)
RAM 256 MB DDR400 DDR-SDRAM, CL2, Crucial
Hard drive IBM DeskStar 60 GXP, IC35L040,40 GB, 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache
Other Hardware
Network adapter 3COM 3C905TX-B, 100 MBit
Graphics card nVIDIA GeForce 4 TI4600128 MB DDR-RAM
Driver & Software
Graphics driver nVIDIA Detonator 4 Series, V 30.82 WHQL
Chipset driver Intel INF Update 4.00.1013Intel Application Accelerator 2.2.2VIA 4in1 4.43
DirectX Version 8.1a
OS Windows 2000 Professional,Service Pack 3
Benchmarks & Settings
Quake III Arena Retail Version 1.16command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Benchmark Using DEMO001 and NV15DEMO
3DMark 2001 SE Default Settings, 1024x768x16
PCMark2002 CPU und Memory Benchmarks
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
BAPCo SYSmark2002 Internet Content Productivity
Lame MP3 Encoding, Version 3.89MMX
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.