Intel's Celeron D Vs Amd's Budget Cpu's

This might be a little bit old, though, I'd just like some of you guys' opinions.

Read it's Review by X-Bit Labs, thoroughly, then, if you wish, post your input and opinion, in detail.

Let's "spice up" Hardwareworld with this topic.

Prices for the Celeron D CPU's available at NewEgg.

The benchmarks:

Aquamark 3: FPS
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/c...aquamark-1.png

Aquamark 3: CPU
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/c...aquamark-2.png

Quake 3:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/celeron-d/q3.png

UT2004:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/celeron-d/q3.png

Halo:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/celeron-d/halo.png

Far Cry:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/celeron-d/farcry.png

3DMark03, CPU Score:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/c...3dmark03-1.png

WinRar 3.3:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/celeron-d/winrar.png

MP3 Encoding, Lame 3.95:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/celeron-d/lame.png

Mpeg-2 Encoding:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/c...ainconcept.png



More benchmarks

Hmm, i only looked at the first 2 benchies, can't ve arsed to read them all, but it seems to be pretty good...

I also see they changed the naming system! Nice move there.

Now thats what I call overclocking potential

I wonder how the durons compare :lol:


Anyway, for example an oc'd athlon mobile 2500+ @ ~2.5 ghz is supposed to be a decent competitor, still. And it's damn cheap.

@superdude this link about the amd bairgain chip is old but still interesting . Wonder how it will stack up ? Its called the Sempron

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5227106.html



Edit: Can't help but think it's a marketing nightmare tho. Celron D or not . People who have never owned a computer, will still think buget chip, dummed down cache. :(