MaximumPC Duron Review!!!!

[RagingGuardian]

I was just flipping through the latest issue of MaximumPc which has a showdown between the Celery2 700Mhz and Duron 700Mhz. The systems were fit with identical components and here are some of the results.

Q3: Duron 42.2fps; Celery2 41.8fps.
SYSmark 2000: Duron 127; Celery2 124
3DMark 2000: Duron 3726; Celery2 3629

Now I want to know if the person who did these benchmarks need another pair of bifocals. This is the first review in which the Duron only managed to edge the Celery2. If I remember correctly the Celery2, even on an overclocked 100Mhz FSB at 800+ Mhz still couldn't best the Duron 600 in Anand's review.

MaximumPc also claimed they could only overclock the Duron 700 to 714. They then recommended the Celery2 over the Duron if your an overclocker since you'll be able to get more performance that way.

I want some of what he's smoking cause it's got to be real good.

 

[oleg]

I've saw the review,
they are not precise and the advice they give is awful.

I mean k'mon.
How can they recommend the Celery 2?
The Duron is atleast 30 - 40% less, and beats the celery pratically in all benchmarks.

I never trust any of these Magazines,

My sources are:

Anandtech,
Tomshardware,
And of course me 🙂

Oleg,

 

[RagingGuardian]

Thank God my 1 year subscription was free and I know better than the garbage they print.

 

[NFS4]

Print magazines are a joke...obviously Maximum PC is either in Intel's pocket or their reviewers don't know how to test.

 

[pdo]

Yeah I was reading that reviews the other days and that was a joke. Obviously Intels been greasing that monkey's hands. Member in this forum is too informed for such reviews, but just think how people out there will be influenced by such reviews. It's time to cancel their subscription.

 

[Modus]

I told you Maximum PC was toilet paper.

Modus