If you have always associated the “Celeron” name with very affordable and slow processors, then time has come for you to change your opinion.Ilya, I guess you do not remember the days of the Celeron 300a and the tualatins...Back in the day the Celeron was the CPU to have. Less L2 meant more Hz.Actually I am really disappointed that the modern CPUs with less cache do not overclock better than the full blown ones. I guess Intel will not repeat its mistake and the Celeron will remain being an affordable and slow CPU.

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I sure hope that after giving VT to Celerons, they'll enable VT on all series of CPUs that they produce. Including processors of previously released series that are still producing, like E5000 for example.

Too bad that our company desktops have E2xxx CPUs, so no XP mode here

Useful results. Higher load processor power consumptions for E5200 than reported elsewhere by almost 10W. Probably the VRM is inefficient at low to moderate power levels. If you used a micro-atx or mini-itx motherboard that would likely be tuned to lower power processors with more efficient VRMs. And be more suitable for these processors.

So yeah, you achieved 4 GHz, but at 1.6 volts? I have an E6600 myself (65nm) and the absolute maximum safe voltage according to Intel's spec is 1.6, and you're using that on a 45nm CPU? Way too high to be safe for 24/7 use. If I recall correctly max voltage is 1.3625 for 45nm CPU's. Some people might say 1.45V, depends where you are looking. Still, good article. Keep up the good job

el boton de impresion ha desparecido

http://www.xbitlabs.com/a.../print/celeron-e3300.ht ml

ha hah ah

Please bring back the print article option! It is extremely nice to be able to scroll rather than loading 10 different pages to read.

What's the reason to put an ancient X2 5600.

You know, the Athlon II 240 cost 60 bucks and trounces the E5200 going toe to toe with the E5400.

http://foro.noticias3d.co...n/showthread.php?t=293174

Shame on you, the Athlon X2 has been discontinued for some time, the Athlon II is their budget processor at the moment. You should have more fairly compared the Athlon II to the Celeron E3000 to give us a more realistic picture.

Bottom line:

Athlon II 240 65w @ 2.8ghz 2mb cache = $60
Celeron E3300 65w @ 2.5ghz 1mb cache = $60

P.S. You can actually upgrade with the AMD platform down the line, something you can't do with the Intel one.