Intel Celeron 420 - Testing
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I will put this little Celeron 420 through some tough benchmarks. To compare it, I'll throw it against my E2140 at stock clocks. I will take a look at what kind of numbers I can get with a full-out overclock of the Celeron 420. This should really show how far a single core can go compared to a dual core. Here is a look at the rest of the hardware we will be using for the testing:
Sandra
The Sandra suite of programs tests the theoretical performance of the parts of the computer. The tests used are aimed at the CPU. This should be one of the tests that shows the biggest difference in the two speeds. It tests everything the CPU can do, not how it is utilized, as in the other tests. We can also compare it to other CPUs by simply using a drop-down box. These tests were run at 3.1 GHz for our Celeron 420.
In our Dhrystone testing, the Celeron is the quickest single core here. When compared to the AMD and Intel dual core, it can't keep up. Now we will move on to the Whetstone tests. Here the Celeron's results are around the same as the other test. It beats the other single core, but loses to dual core. Here the old Pentium 4 with HT nearly matches this Celeron. The top of the line CPU of a few years ago is equal to the cheap CPU now.
Here we see some different results than we saw with the first two tests. For the Integer tests, the Celeron comes in second behind its dual core, higher cache brother. It beats out the AMD dual core. Once we move on to the Floating-Point tests, the AMD dual core comes back to top the Celeron.
Overall, the Celeron is a good single core CPU. That would have been great a few years ago, but we're using dual cores and quad cores now. Single cores are pretty much obsolete nowadays.
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