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To: peter_luc who wrote (80112)	5/15/2002 1:53:12 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Peter, Re: "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." I agree. They probably wouldn't. However, Tom's Hardware used DDR memory, and the Celeron seemed to do very well. Of course, I'm sure you can try to make an argument about benchmarks that favor Intel CPUs. <g> On the flip side, though, the ZDNet review used a lot of applications that most people wouldn't use with a "value" CPU. 3D Studio, Bryce, and professional OpenGL (Vulpine and ViewPerf benchmarks) are not mainstream applications, so the results from these are merely academic. My feeling is that megahertz seems to sell better in the "value" market than performance, but it's nice to see that the new Celeron is not the slouch I thought it would be. After all, it's basically a Willamette CPU with half the cache. Although, it is arguably faster than the Duron on mainstream applications, and that ain't bad. On the other hand, as others have pointed out, it pretty much forces AMD's mainstream Athlon XP ASPs into the Celeron range, and that ain't good (for AMD). wbmw