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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (80107)	5/15/2002 12:25:03 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

wbmw, In the end, it seems to work out: The Celeron Willamette 1.7 GHz is currently the fastest budget CPU. At $83, it is even slightly cheaper than AMD's Duron 1300 ($84)." I don't know where Tome gets his numbers, but the fastest Duron is $62 on PriceWatch, and $79, you can get AXP 1700+. Joe

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (80107)	5/15/2002 1:31:51 PM
From: peter_luc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

wbmw, "Tom's Hardware reviews new Celeron 1.7GHz Seems to beat the Duron in most tests. Probably one of the reasons AMD is dumping the Duron by end of year? tomshardware.com "While the Celeron cannot keep apace with its older brother or the Duron at the same clock speeds, it has to run much faster by default - so it not only offers fast performance, but it fits perfectly into Intel's "clock speed sells" strategy. In the end, it seems to work out: The Celeron Willamette 1.7 GHz is currently the fastest budget CPU. At $83, it is even slightly cheaper than AMD's Duron 1300 ($84)."" ZDNet.de Germany comes to a different conclusion. Let me try to translate: "Even on the RAMBUS platform (tests with DDR memory will follow) the new Celeron is only about as fast as AMD's Duron with 1300 MHz. At office and rendering applications, the Duron leaves the Celeron far behind. Also concerning internet applications the Celeron is clearly slower than the Duron in drawing HTML and Javascript pages. The strengths of the new Celeron are video and audio encoding and 3D action games. In these areas, the Celeron is in most cases slightly faster than the Duron." See zdnet.de with LOTS of benchmarks. I wonder how the result would have been with DDR instead of RAMBUS memory. I doubt that there will be many people who use a Celeron together with RAMBUS memory. Peter