[NTLUG:Discuss] Sempron vs Celeron on Linux

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> AMD claims that it's 1.6GHz Sempron runs slightly to significantly
> faster than Intel's 2.8GHz Celeron, basing it's claim on Winstone and
> Sysmark ICC.  I don't know if these are MS Windows oriented or not and
> was wondering if anyone had any confirming or denying information to
> provide.  I'm obviously not going for peak performance but would like to
> get the most for my money.  BogoMIPs reports pretty much a linear
> relation to raw CPU MHz but that's why it's prefixed with Bogo...
> 

I would think that's a true statement.  After the early Celeron
mistake (where the Celeron actually out performed the PII on many
if not most benchmarks), Intel has made sure that the Celeron is
a "poor" performing part.  I'd opt for the Sempron over the Celeron.

I have not heard of any great Celeron overclocking stories since
those early days.

Just my observation.