ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ:

• The subject
• Testbed
• Closeup
• Default frequency benchmarks
• Overclocking: disclaimer
• Some serious speed
• Comparison
• Conclusion

So, what can we say about the new Celeron 2400? By itself the processor is nothing unusual, as expected. The budget series of Intel processors raised their frequency on another 200 Mhz, with the corresponding performance boost. The thing that is more interesting to us now, is the overclocking results. No, Celeron 2400@3600 didn't become a miracle of ages, it has just won by raw MHz. Even being 700 Mhz ahead Pentium 4 it showed slightly lower performance in professional applications though won the battle of pure power in synthetic Sandra benches. As for 3DMark, Celeron suffered a bitter defeat. With all its outstanding potential, running at 3600Mhz and 720FSB Cel-2400 barely overstripped P4 at default frequency 2400/533. I cannot recommend using this processor for professional needs or for hardcore gaming machine, but its rather nice for a quite powerful, but still budget, home PC. Actually, don't forget that Intel is positioning Celerons for value market, that's why it was a bit unfair to compete Cel 2.4 with P4. For its price (we hope it'll be about $100-120 when it will reach Europe and US) new processor demonstrated impressive performance and awesome potential for overclocking. Anyway, this is your first chance to reach 3.5GHz without extreme methods and, moreover, on lo-end CPU.

Well, we have tested a pre-production sample and still don't have any information about other C2400 overclocking results. We have some doubts that stock CPUs will be able to achieve that marvellous result. But if other reviews will confirm our 3600MHz, then... Grab it quickly!!!