Quik help on atom/celeron2

[Herradura]

I have been out of touch with my cpu news the past few months so i would be grateful for urgent help.

NEEDS:
Obv great multi media power and speed..

Pure easy of usse and simplicity.
Minor OC Ease.
Minor RTS gaming such as Empire total war high settings.
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I will be matching the cpu with the needed hardware to do the above



Thank you to all for any help.

 

[ShawnD1]

Intel Atom processors cannot play games. You'll also want to make sure your laptop does not have Intel graphics.

Outside of that, possibilities are endless.

 

[ViRGE]

If it's an Atom processor, it's not a laptop. It's a toy.

Get the Celeron (or better).

 

[Herradura]

so is the older core2 duos still better than the celerons?

 

[formulav8]

In my experience the Atom for anything more than just absolute basic stuff is absolute trash. I've used a netbook with a 1.6ghz version and it was dog slow. Felt weaker than a 600-700mhz Pentium3 or something. Just my experience and opinion though. :/



Jason

 

[masterbm]

Well celeron if that your choice. But if you want any thing more word and the internet. Save your money for about 600 you could amd dual core like rm-72 that will be able to play games

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: formulav8
In my experience the Atom for anything more than just absolute basic stuff is absolute trash. I've used a netbook with a 1.6ghz version and it was dog slow. Felt weaker than a 600-700mhz Pentium3 or something. Just my experience and opinion though. :/

You're not that far off.

anandtech: Intel Atom
anandtech: desktop processors

The only one that can be compared between the two articles is DivX encoding. A 1.6ghz Intel Atom takes 388 seconds (~6.5 minutes). A shitty 1.6ghz E2140 takes 120 (2 minutes). The best CPU benchmarked, the 3.2GHz Intel i7, takes 32 seconds (0.5 minutes).

It's effectively 1/12 as fast as top of the line and maybe 1/5 as fast as what was top of the line 2 years ago.

"The performance breakdown is inline with what we've seen throughout the rest of the tests; the Atom is about half the speed of the Celeron 420, and around the speed of a 1.2GHz Pentium M. "