Testbed and Methods
During this test session we decided to check out the performance of the already available dual-core Celeron E1200 processor and that of the upcoming Celeron E1600 that we managed to get our hands on. We also couldn’t help testing its performance after overclocking to 3.4GHz (obtained as 8 x 425MHz).
Celeron E1200 will be competing against other CPUs from the same price range: single-core Celeron 440 and dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4000+ that is currently selling for less than $60.
We have also included faster and more expensive processors into this test session that will help us analyze the results of the Celeron E1600 and overclocked to 3.4GHz CPU. As a result, we used the following computer hardware:
AMD Platform:
- CPUs:
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Socket AM2, 2.1GHz, 2x512KB L2, Brisbane);
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (Socket AM2, 2.7GHz, 2x512KB L2, Brisbane).
- Mainboard: ASUS M2R32-MVP (Socket AM2, AMD 580X).
- Memory: 2GB DDR2-800 with 4-4-4-12-1T timings (Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF).
- Graphics card: OCZ GeForce 8800GTX (PCI-E x16).
- HDD: Western Digital WD1500AHFD (SATA150).
- OS: Microsoft Windows Vista x86.
Intel Platform:
- CPUs:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (LGA775, 2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2, Conroe);
- Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 (LGA775, 2.6GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2, Allendale);
- Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 (LGA775, 2.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2, Allendale);
- Intel Pentium E2160 (LGA775, 1.8GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2, Allendale);
- Intel Celeron E1600 (LGA775, 2.4GHz, 800MHz FSB, 512KB L2, Allendale);
- Intel Celeron E1200 (LGA775, 1.6GHz, 800MHz FSB, 512KB L2, Allendale);
- Intel Celeron 440 (LGA775, 2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 512KB L2, Conroe-L).
- Mainboard: ASUS P5E (LGA775, Intel X38, DDR2 SDRAM).
- Memory: 2GB DDR2-800 with 4-4-4-12 timings (Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF).
- Graphics card: OCZ GeForce 8800GTX (PCI-E x16).
- HDD: Western Digital WD1500AHFD (SATA150).
- OS: Microsoft Windows Vista x86.
When we measured the performance of the overclocked dual-core Celeron processor its 3.4GHz frequency was obtained as 8 x 425MHz. The memory in this case was running at 850MHz with 4-4-4-12 timings.
