Celeron Core 2 E1200 Review or Core 2 for nothing

Page 5 – Tests and Test rig

It is quite disappointing that at the time of testing we had no configuration to represent the cheap AMD X2 processors in this class. Here is what our Intel test rig looks like:

The rig:

• MSI P35 NEO2-FR
• TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX – 2x2GB 800MHz 12-5-5-5
• 36GB Western Digital Raptor 10 000 RPM
• Corsair TX750W PSU

Windows Vista Ultimate x64
NVIDIA 169.25 x64 WHQL Drivers

The processors that were tested:

Intel Celeron E1200
1600MHz (8x200), 800MHz FSB

Intel Pentium E2140
1600MHz (8x200), 800MHz FSB

Intel Pentium E4500
2200MHz (11x200), 800MHz FSB

As we mentioned before, E1200 and E2140 differ only in the amount of cache – 512KB and respectively 1MB, while the E4500 as the lowest model in the Intel 4000 has 2MB cache. Most curious we were about the difference in performance between the first two, the price difference between them being only 25 leva (~18$)

The tests were chosen with the idea of loading the processors in different applications, for them to show how are they holding up in both plain working and games alike. Here is our list:

• Lost Planet – Extreme Condition DX10 Demo / Benchmark
• World in Conflict DX10 Demo / Benchmark
• Maxton Cinebench 10
• 3DMark06
• XviD & DivX compressing video file
• MP3 compressing audio file
• PDNBench – picture editing
• WinRAR compressing source code
• SuperPI 8M

Let the testing begin...