Celeron
Hard Drive Recovery - Celeron
Celeron is the brand name for a range of x86 CPUs from Intel. These low-cost CPUs deliver high quality at an exceptional value, according to Intel. The first Celeron branded CPU was introduced in April 1998, and it was based on the Pentium III branded core. Later Celeron PCs were also made on Pentium II, Pentium 4, Pentium M and Core 2 Duo processors.
Celeron PCs can run all IA-32 computer programs, but they lag behind the costlier Intel CPUs in terms of performance. They may have less cache memory, or they may have some of the advanced features disabled. These drawbacks may affect the performance depending on the computing applications. For example, Celeron PCs are reported to have performance issues with some of the high-end PC games, programs for video compression, video editing or solid modeling.
The latest design as of June 2009 is based on the Allendal-512 core (Core 2 Duo). This design features independent processing cores (CPUs), but with only 25 percent as much cache memory (512 kiB L2) as the comparable Core 2 Duo offering. FSB frequency is 200 MHz QDR. New features include fully enhanced halt state and enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology. Clock rates range from 1.6 GHz to 2.4 GHz. They also run in any motherboard that supports current Core 2 Duo family processors.
