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Been on the Parentals Celeron 2.4GHz P4

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Been on the Parentals Celeron 2.4GHz P4

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According to Intel, there is no such thing. It's either a Celeron, or a P4! Lots of places used to write it like this, "P4 Celeron" when describing the capabilities of the MB socket. They "accidentally" leave out the coma between the two. There is a Celeron Dual Core, but it's still a Celeron! The old original celerons were real dogs with the ability to transfer only half the data of a P-III or P4. They also had a smaller on chip cache! The newer ones are somewhat better, but even the Celeron D, is still only a Celeron. Hope that clears that up! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ

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Even when Intel chips were the best to have (as in, many many years ago) the Celerons were crap.

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Absolutely, that's all I was arguing for in the first place.

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That's pretty good, how about the global CPU temperature?

Just goes to show that lapping the heatsink has just as much of an effect for the Freezer 7 as the Thermalright.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Where are these benches from? They're complete crap.
There is no way the 8800GT is twice as fast as the HD3870, that's completely bogus. Yes the 8800 is slightly faster, but nowhere near that much.

Okay, Tom's Hardware have upped some benchmarks, but unfortunately they too suffer the same flaws as the first benchmark in that crucial comparisons are missing (as is often the way with THG these days, their benches are less and less impressive by day, I stick with them though because they don't make the figures up)

They compare the top 3 performance cards, the 9800GX2, HD3870X2 and 8800 Ultra. They do not, however, compare the cards to the high end single offerings (8800GTS G92, 8800GT, HD3870) nor do they compare the 9800GX2 to a pair of 9600GTs.
However, I will do my best to compile a frames-per-second per pound analysis of the data. I will subtract 10% from the readings for the 8800 Ultra and declare that approximately equal to the 8800GTX, which is still sold.

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