The Intel Celeron processor is designed to bring a balanced level of proven technology and value to basic PC desktops. With the Celeron processor you can expect an affordable and reliable PC for your home or home office to meet your basic computing needs, such as e-mailing friends and relatives, tracking home finances, and running interactive or educational software for your kids. It provides great balance between computing power and affordability. The entire family of Celeron processors delivers Intel technology, quality, and reliability to the desktop, value PC consumer.
This cpu is about the best bang for the buck you can currently expect. Although this thing is likely to scare many computers into shutting down. When it reports that it at a temperature over boiling. That my motherboard tells me, and I used the best arctic compound, and a heatpipe cooler with big fan. None of which are hot or even warm to the touch. Now soft gives mixed results, cpu will be over 100c yet each core will be around 30-40s. It's a great overclocker though.
I bought this processor, because it was benchmarked very highly on cpubenchmark.net. The processor is surprisingly fast and efficient and it is extremely cheap as well. This processor runs anything that I go to run without any type of delays. I haven't tried overclocking it yet, but I plan to see what I could put its limits to.
Never cared about the older celeron processors before. They were slow (that's an understatement) very little cache, just didn't perform. Read reports about the Dual-core E3300 that caught my eye. Didn't think I could go wrong with the price after what I read about it. I was pleasantly surprised, the cpu does a great job. I wouldn't hesitate buying another. It is in a windows 7 ultimate 64 bit OS.
Super Cheap, built on the wolfdale architecture they make the new C2Ds with, and performs only slightly lower. Forget what you though about Celerons, this is a good performing cpu for the price. Came with cooling that was a bit hard to install though.