Intel's Celeron D(isaster) ...The Most Hated CPU

Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where we're going to be taking a deep dive into the history and failure of Intels very own Celeron D...

So join me today as we throw a few modern titles at the CPU, a few classics from before its release, every operating system i could actually test given the time i had available, and well the authentic budget builds experience, where we take a proper deep dive into where things went do wrong for Intels Little Celeron.

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Specs:
CPU: Intel Celeron D 352
GPU: AMD Fury and GTX650, both performed the exact same, so no point showing a comparison in the video.
RAM: 8GB DDR2 800Mhz
Windows 10, 7, XP, and Lubuntu, and Ubuntu

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[thunderpony]

It's packaging probably has more processing power than the processor itself

[ITTFami]

I remember back when I was a kid, a friend of mine had one of these in his machine. The day he upgraded to a Pentium 4, we went outside and kicked the Celeron chip down the street until the IHS fell off.

[fadefedora]

My first pc came with a Celeron D 331, 512MB DDR and Windows Vista Starter.


Just imagine my pain.

[mrpawpaw]

As a hardware developer, the joke around the company was to never buy a processor with a name that sounded like a vegetable. Later on, at another company I worked for, the product was used in a problematic system that had constant problems with a glitchie USB circuit, likely attributed to the chipset. This chip was so slow that you could outthink it yourself.

[netherrack]

The first computer my dad had was originally built in 1999 and got used for a good 15 years. I still remember around 2010 it would flawlessly run Youtube in 480p and it had a Pentium 3 and Windows XP. That really makes me understand how crap this processor is.

[skyediann]

The word Celeron doesn't usually inspire confidence, Celeron D inspires a week curled up in the corner crying softly. Celeron 300A however... we all love that chip.

[davovalsplace]

You waited 45 minutes for GTA V to load.
Your patience is quite impressive

[Pross]

I like how the baseline for this thing is, "It runs, " or "it loads the game, eventually...". Lol fantastic.

[grantbanstead]

I used to warn my companies clients not to buy them but with the power of marketing Intel sold Celeron as something to have. Clients showed me laptops proudly showing off Celeron stickers and they were slower than the laptops they replaced. A complete con like notebooks vs laptops.

[MJ-uklu]

Celeron D makes even Pentium 4 look like a wonderful CPU

[Nick-ueiw]

"Genuine potato"


Yep. My first PC was a dell dimension 2400, with one of those celeron 128K L2 cache CPUs running at 2.4 GHz. To call it a potato was putting it mildly, it didnt run ANYTHING well. Eventually I inherited a dell dimension 4600 froma family member, same PC but with dual channel memory (yes that celeron had SINGLE CHANNEL RAM) and a 3, 4 GHz northwood pentium 4. Night and day difference.


Those celerons were utter garbage. Star wars empire at war was one of my favorite games, and the celeron ran it at 4 FPS. 4! This is a game that will run at 20-30 FPS on a 1.4 GHz penium III. The 3.4 GHz northwood could run it so much better, 30 FPS with 3 AI on screen, that I refuse to ever touch anything with a celeron in it again.

[Silo]

Its serious when even Intel themselves say that the "D" stands for "Disabled".

[beigebox]

You need to do pair this with the FX-5200 and make the ultimate, period-correct "mistakes were made" build of 2004.

[curtc]

I remember how disappointed we were in IT classes through IT Tech when we were led to believe that the units we were working with would have Pentium processors and had Celeron instead.

[JorgeAraujo]

Prescott was amazing: it could heat a room with much less power consumption than a real heater.

[harmonygritz]

The infamous Intel “Celery” processor: the quintessential bottleneck, and choke cherry in cpu form.

[JamesSmith-swnk]

Mr. Budget Builds got a near "top of the line" CeleronD with a 3.2ghz and 512k cache, Most CeleronD's had a 256k cache.

[hgbugalou]

We used these at work for the longest time in Dell Optiplex PCs when they were out. They were god awful especially combined with mechanical HDDs. I finally convinced my manager getting the higher end and more expensive Core2s was cheaper in the long run with less support tickets and people not stuck waiting 45 mins for boots, 3 hours for windows update, and 10 minutes for word to start.

[WWMT_AERO]

I built my first computer when I was 11 years old, with the guidance of my father

The Celeron D 356 was my first processor and it always holds a special place in my heart

It definitely sucked, but it was the first

[takeshi]

Back when I was waiting for the Core 2 Quads to be released I got a Celeron D 326 for $50 to hold me over. It overclocked from 2.53 GHz to 4.13 GHz on the stock cooler and it ran every game well enough during that era. When I finally got the C2Q a single core underclocked to 1.6 GHz still stomped the Celeron D at 4.13 GHz.