Intel Celeron D 356 / 3.33 GHz processor

Back in Summer 2006, upon reclaiming back £196 of the £258 NatWest screwed me out of during 2005, I realised it was probably about time to start thinking about a new computer, since the one I was using at the time (1.1GHz AMD Duron jobbie I'd had since Sept. 2002) was starting to be older than the length of time I'd used the PC I had before that one (1999 - 2002 previous one, 2002 - 2006 for it's successor, Dec 2006 to present for the one this processor I'm reviewing wound up in). My first PC was a 75Mhz Pentium1 jobbie rebuilt by some kid, which I bought after seeing an advert in the Whitby ... more

Got this processor in a cheap Medion pc (from tescos £300) about six months ago was intially very impressed by the frequency 3.33 ghz which sounds good. However this is deceiving to the performance of the cpu i.e. though it handles simple pc tasks such as non demanding things like the internet it often slows down and nearly constantly runs at 100% frequency or quite near that level. Game performance with this cpu is poor and will lead to low fps rates and choppiness. This performance is due to the low cache size 512k, adequete cache size is one of the main neccesitys for good pc gaming and ... more