Intel Celeron D: New, Improved & Exceeds Expectations

jmke · 25th June 2004, 01:08

When we first heard that Intel would be continuing the Celeron tradition with a Prescott based "D" line, we were a little skeptical. When we further heard that the Celeron D would only be getting a quarter of the cache its underperforming Pentium 4 parent has, our eyes widened with doubt. Sure, a bump up to a 533MHz FSB would help, but it couldn't possibly make up for the kind of performance issues that we saw with the Pentium 4 E; could it?

Looking back over the past of couple months, we can almost imagine Intel knowing what everyone was thinking and going along quietly with a little smirk on its face. That's right, our first inclinations that Celeron D performance would be worse than Intel's already atrocious budget performance were utterly and completely wrong.

In fact, the new Celeron D is a big step up in performance over the Northwood-based Celeron.

We've gone from thinking that this would be a quick article on the hastening demise of the lowest value "value" chip on the market to an article about how Intel is taking a step in the right direction, while we are once again reminded that knowing the ins and outs of an architecture is no substitute for performance numbers. Of course, that was the point of requiring scaling graphs and analysis along with our simulators back in Microprocessor Architecture class.

Before getting to the numbers, we'll take a brief look back at what's inside the new Prescott based Celeron, and we'll try to understand exactly what makes Celeron D so special.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=2093&p=1

Sidney · 25th June 2004, 01:33

Time to find out how it oc's.

jmke · 25th June 2004, 01:36

Would be cool to have a report on that

are they for sale yet?

Sidney · 25th June 2004, 01:42

Haven't seen it yet. Not even listed in Intel Specs.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/scr...asp?ProcFam=49

jmke · 25th June 2004, 01:51

--> http://www.intel.com/products/deskto...w_news_040624&

25th June 2004, 01:08	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Intel Celeron D: New, Improved & Exceeds Expectations When we first heard that Intel would be continuing the Celeron tradition with a Prescott based "D" line, we were a little skeptical. When we further heard that the Celeron D would only be getting a quarter of the cache its underperforming Pentium 4 parent has, our eyes widened with doubt. Sure, a bump up to a 533MHz FSB would help, but it couldn't possibly make up for the kind of performance issues that we saw with the Pentium 4 E; could it? Looking back over the past of couple months, we can almost imagine Intel knowing what everyone was thinking and going along quietly with a little smirk on its face. That's right, our first inclinations that Celeron D performance would be worse than Intel's already atrocious budget performance were utterly and completely wrong. In fact, the new Celeron D is a big step up in performance over the Northwood-based Celeron. We've gone from thinking that this would be a quick article on the hastening demise of the lowest value "value" chip on the market to an article about how Intel is taking a step in the right direction, while we are once again reminded that knowing the ins and outs of an architecture is no substitute for performance numbers. Of course, that was the point of requiring scaling graphs and analysis along with our simulators back in Microprocessor Architecture class. Before getting to the numbers, we'll take a brief look back at what's inside the new Prescott based Celeron, and we'll try to understand exactly what makes Celeron D so special. http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=2093&p=1 __________________

25th June 2004, 01:33	#2
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	Time to find out how it oc's. __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

25th June 2004, 01:36	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Would be cool to have a report on that are they for sale yet? __________________

25th June 2004, 01:42	#4
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	Haven't seen it yet. Not even listed in Intel Specs. http://processorfinder.intel.com/scr...asp?ProcFam=49 __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

25th June 2004, 01:51	#5
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	--> http://www.intel.com/products/deskto...w_news_040624& __________________

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