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  • Celerons are crippled full P4's. The full cache is not enabled and depending on the model, there are pipeline differences as well. Intel is still in the practice of selling chips that fail to meet manufacturing goals. If it was intended to be a full P4 2.6 ghz, for example, but fails in testing and only has one level cache working or even fails to come in at 2.6, Intel will then rate it down to what it tests out at. That's actually how celerons came about initially. Lots of failed chips that they needed to find a market for or scrap. Voila, instant poor man's Cpu, sorta ok chip. It's one of the reasons that celerons actually make good cpus to overclock. They are usually rated far below what they could potentially put out under an overclock. Lots of untapped potential.I got about a 30% boost from my celeron's rated speed, saving me a good chunk of change over a similarly rated full P4. It may not be quite as good, but you get what you pay for and a celeron offers more bang for your buck, if you know how to exploit them.

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