13 Facts About Celeron

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Celeron branded processors often have less cache or intentionally disabled advanced features, with variable impact on performance.

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2.

Subsequent Celeron-branded CPUs were based on the Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, and Intel Core.

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3.

Celeron effectively killed off the nine-year-old 80486 chip, which had been the low-end processor brand for laptops until 1998.

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4.

Substantial numbers were sold on first release, largely on the strength of the Intel name, but the Celeron quickly achieved a poor reputation both in the trade press and among computer professionals.

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5.

New Mendocino-core Celeron was a good performer from the outset.

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6.

Some software and users refer to the chips as Celeron-S, referring to the chip's lineage with the Pentium III-S, but this is not an official designation.

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7.

The ability to share the same socket as the Pentium 4 meant that the Celeron now had the option to use RDRAM, DDR SDRAM, or traditional SDRAM.

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8.

The Prescott-256 Celeron D was manufactured for Socket 478 and LGA 775, with 3x0 and 3x5 designations from 310 through to 355 at clock speeds of 2.

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9.

The Celeron 220 is the successor of the Celeron 215 which is based on a Yonah core and used on the D201GLY motherboard.

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10.

New features to the Celeron family included full enhanced halt state and enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology.

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11.

Celeron P1053 is an embedded processor for Socket 1366 from the Jasper Forest family.

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12.

Celeron'slton core is a Banias core without any L2 cache and SpeedStep.

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13.

Celeron'slton'08 is a basic platform for a low cost notebook released by Intel at January 2008.

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