Performance Guide: Intel Celeron

Celeron - Expendable

In Quake III, the performance increase between every speed grade becomes even bigger. At 366 MHz, the TNT2/Ultra is 15% faster than Intel's i810 integrated solution. With a Celeron 600, the nVIDIA chip provides 40% higher frame rates than i810. Using one of the fastest Pentium III models (850 MHz) with the TNT2 Ultra will give you more than double the frame rate than with Intel's 3D deccelerator. I think it's not necessary to mention that every GeForce card will produce even better results.

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.