Intel's $5 Single Core Celeron - It Can't Be That Bad...

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Today we'll be taking a look at one of the worst CPU's Ive ever tested: the Celeron 420. With its unremarkable 1.6 GHz single core and lack of hyperthreading, it doesn't have much to offer. For some reason people actually liked it but it faces many tests against modern standards. But.. Can You GAME on an Intel CELERON ProceSSOR? Well find out.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:28 Why Do Celerons Even Exist?
1:15 What's Inside This Celeron?
2:07 Why The Celeron Was AWESOME (sometimes)
2:44 Go Check out Silkland!
3:44 Windows 10 / Tiny 10 OS
4:08 Tiny 10 Cinebench R23
4:23 Far Cry 1080p Low
4:38 Half-Life Low
4:53 GTA 3 Normal
5:16 Battlefield 1080p Low
5:40 What About Windows 7?
6:58 Cinbench R23
7:10 Game Benchmarks
7:35 Windows XP Gone Wrong
8:13 Results!
8:20 Intel Celeron 420: The Conclusion
8:56 Now Go SUBSCRIBE!

Script (As much as I could fit):

Hello everybody and I recently rediscovered an Inspiron 530 hiding in my basement so I decided to try out its worst-supported CPU: the Celeron 420. Now it only has 1 core running at 1.6 GHz, and only 1 thread so it cant support hyperthreading. I wanted to make this video because Intel discontinued their Celeron lineup and even though this is a very weak processor, people still seemed to like it. We're gonna try it out in a few different environments and I've got the video split up into chapters, but for now, we've got to figure out why this thing even exists.

Now the first Celeron came out in 1998 as part of the Celeron Covington family. These processors were targeted toward budget-oriented consumers and had valuable selling points such as reduced performance and fewer features than their flagship counterparts. For some reason, this worked, rinse and repeat for a few years and now it's 2007.

This year saw the release of actual competent dual-core processors; Netburst was finally gone and the Core 2 duo lineup ushered in a new era of computing performance. These core 2 duos were exceptional, using Intel’s core microarchitecture as part of the Conroe family. The Celeron in question uses a variant of that called Conroe - L which technically stands for low power, but I'd like to imagine it stands for the loser. As the name suggests it was intended as a low-power, cheap solution running little more than an operating system. It also maintained itself as a budget-friendly option, costing only $40 when it was brand new.

So what did $40 get you? Well I bought a pack of 2 of these bad boys for $10 on eBay, and they came with complimentary printed-out bible quotes, which I ended up throwing out. Both of them were a bit dirty and one looked like the “Concrete guy had a CPU in his pocket” - like how do you even do this? Did this guy put the thermal paste in the socket or what

Now each of these was decked out with a single thread and a single core with a clock speed of 1600 MHz all pulling 35 watts. It used the 65 nm process it also had 105 million transistors with 64 kb of l1 cache, 512kb of l2 cache, and used the LGA 775 socket. Also, it turns out the 775 in lga 775 stands for the 775 contact points of the CPU, and also LGA means land grid array. I never knew that.

Now I haven't been very fair to the poor Celeron so far - it does its best, and it seems like people actually liked it.

Well, I like it, the most recent Newegg review is from 2008, but it was well-received. People bought it because of its low power draw, low price, and its versatility. But what's weird is there's not a single negative review, everyone loved this little Celeron. Also, it's weird that Newegg still has these things in stock. Honestly, I kinda want to buy one just to unbox it, but $100 is a bit much.

But it was time to put the Celeron to the test. The system will be using this with a slightly destroyed Inspiron 530 with 8 GB of ddr2 memory, and an Rtx 3060 using an external power supply. I'll admit pairing this Celeron with a 3060 is a wild decision, but I wanted to make sure the CPU was the bottleneck. Also consider leaving a like, commenting, or subscribing so I can afford to buy more e-waste. Thanks

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Also some of the most popular intel celeron CPUs include the celeron G6900, celeron N5100, and celeron e3000. Those are all much more powerful than the Celeron 420.

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