Another Intel Dual-Core Celeron in 2Q08

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According to DigiTimes, Intel will release another dual-core Celeron in the second quarter of this year. The new Celeron will run at 2GHz, have a 800MHz front side bus and 512k L2 cache.

Intel is planning to launch E1400 with a core frequency of 2GHz, 800MHz FSB, L2 cache of 512KB, and maximum TDP of 65W. The chip is based on a 65nm Conroe core and supports Intel 64, XD Bit (Execute Disable Bit) and Speed Step technology. Pricing will be set at US$53 in a thousand-unit tray quantities.
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I agree. I dont' understand the point of these lines. Sure it made a little bit of sense when there were only 2 or 3 processors for you to choose from. But now if you don't want the fastest thing on the market but want something a little cheaper then get the cheaper P4 or Core 2 model. Same goes for AMD.
 
QFT. I sell computers, and I don't really understand people that buy a celeron. Often, the difference between the celeron based PC's and the Pentium Dual Cores is minimal, cash-wise. But specs vary wildly. The PDc's usually have 2x the hard drive, more ram etc. The Celeron based models often don't have DVD burning capability.
The only place I can see this being usefull is in a small business with several pc's whose only job is word processing. At least they are 62-bit capable.

The real reason that they still sell? They have that magic sub$400 price tag for everything (PC monitor and printer).
 
Modred189 said:
The real reason that they still sell? They have that magic sub$400 price tag for everything (PC monitor and printer).
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Ding, ding!

The low end is large enough not to ignore. Intel may have overall ASPs of ~$120 for desktop CPUs, but a much cheaper than average CPU is needed for a $300 retail desktop.

TheCreator: Why? Besides the Willamette/Northwood Celerons, the chips have not been too bad for the price. These new dual core Celerons are based on Core 2 (Allendale). See http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/celeron-e1200.html The low end dual core Celeron 1.6GHz doesn't sit far behind the X2 4000+ in many benchmarks and even beats the X2 4000+ in several. Of couse how good of a deal it is for most buyers depends on what systems cost and what price drops AMD makes in response.
 
the celeron had its place back in the day when we were overclocking the 300A, 333, etc. now theres not much point with how low cpu prices are....it would be much better to pick up the ass end of the core 2's for a desktop.
 
Exavior said:
I agree. I dont' understand the point of these lines. Sure it made a little bit of sense when there were only 2 or 3 processors for you to choose from. But now if you don't want the fastest thing on the market but want something a little cheaper then get the cheaper P4 or Core 2 model. Same goes for AMD.
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Well, it's as simple as: Not everyone needs a $100 - $1000 proc. If all someone does is read email, blogs, and PDFs, surf the internet, and watch youtube, a dual core of any kind will pull you through, It may not make much sense on a small scale, but think of maybe schools or recreatin centres. Why shell out $600 per unit when you could do well with $400, a huge margin of savings when you consider the amout of parts they buy. Also, they don't want to cut the segment as where else would they get money from the units that didn't stack up to being a core2 duo (proper edition) if they were to simply dispose of the sub par parts, it would drive the high end part prices up. Selling the partialy disabled parts are a good thing :D
 
Everything has a place somewhere. While I myself wouldn't buy one, there are plenty of people out there that want and have a need for low cost builds.
 
Modred189 said:
Actually that's a good point. All those people out there with an Eee PC might be able to upgrade and throw one of these in there... Dual core Eee ftw.
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These are 65W TDP processors. The Eee PC uses an underclocked low voltage CPU rated at 5W (Celeron M ULV 353 @ 900MHz).

The Eee PC has a soldered CPU anyways. :p
 
I forgot to mention that socketed mobile chips are mFCPGA 478/479 (Eee PC uses mFCBGA 479) and these Celerons are LGA 775.

Even if it did fit, and these low speed Allendales were really 40W TDP processors and if you could lower the stock voltage to 1.0v and you ran it at 533MHz FSB (1066MHz CPU speed from 1.6GHz/800MHz FSB), that would still be around 17W TDP.
 
I'd buy it to upgrade my sister's backup desktop. She only uses it for MSN/Internet/Music.

Right now it has a 2.2. Ghz Celeron D :)

I like the price. There are some applications Celerons always needed. That is, low-performance, internet browsing PC's.
 
This cpu and the previous E1200 or w/e it was called are just Pentium Dual Cores with 1/2 the cache axed. Here in canada one can be had for around 55'ish dollars, where as the e2140 can be had for about 10-15 dollars more. At that price its much to little for actually consider it a good purchase, if the difference in price was more it woudln't be that bad for a budget system.
 
SILVR 6 said:
This cpu and the previous E1200 or w/e it was called are just Pentium Dual Cores with 1/2 the cache axed. Here in canada one can be had for around 55'ish dollars, where as the e2140 can be had for about 10-15 dollars more. At that price its much to little for actually consider it a good purchase, if the difference in price was more it woudln't be that bad for a budget system.
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And you can still overclock the E2xxx series to the high 2.xx GHz range at least; if you're looking for a cheap CPU and overclocking, the E2xxx would probably be what you're looking for. The E1xxx series lags behind the E2xxx series to not be worth it.
 
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