They are cheap because they are budget processors, they dont perform as well as the higher priced Pentium's or Core 2 Duo's.
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Originally Posted by andy faith
They dont have a maths processing chip or something like that so the performance is fairly bad for anything other than word processing, surfing the web and other low power tasks.
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Untrue, if you're comparing a Celeron (D) to a Pentium (4), then the only differences that make it a worse performer is it's very low amount of cache, and slow FSB, it also didnt have HT.