Intel Celeron E1400 – Review and benchmarks

by Gary Illyes

The infamous Intel seemingly always thinks about its less rich clients as well, likely that the Celeron family was designed for them. Each Celeron is way cheaper than the similar model from the higher class, in the Celerons’ case cheaper means that there’s a high loss of performance. Just like at the Intel Celeron E1400 case.

A few words about the Celeron E1400

It was manufactured with a 65 nanometer technology, can be fitted in (probably) any motherboard with Socket 775 and has 2 cores. It has 64bit support through its Intel® EM64T feature, as always, you have to have an operating system, drivers and programs to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture.
The processor works under maximum load at 2GHz, the front side bus speed is 800MHz and features Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology. This means that if the operating system supports this feature, then it can adjust the processor’s voltage when it’s underused in order to decrease the heat created by the processor. This feature is spiced with Intel® Thermal Monitor 2, for “just in case”.
As it’s a Celeron processor, it lacks Level 2 cache. The Celeron E1400 has only 512KB cache, working at 2GHz. This will be enough for any type of office application, but for games is surely not enough.

Intel® Celeron E1400 benchmarks

The system on which the benchmarks were done is the following:

• Motherboard: Asus P5N-EM HDMI
• Processor: Intel Celeron E1400, dual core
• RAM: Kingmax Dual-Channel 2GB DDRII
• Graphics card: Integrated GeForce 7100/nForce 630i

Running specific benchmarks, they popped the following results:

SuperPI 1M: 38 seconds
SuperPI 2M: 1 minute and 26 seconds
3DMark06 CPU: 1488
Cinebench10 Single CPU render: 1587
Cinebench10 Multi CPU render: 2872

Verdict on the Intel Celeron E1400

Even though it has 2 cores, this processor is less than recommended for gaming. It performs well with office applications and image manipulating, but when it comes to multimedia and high resolution video rendering, it struggles.

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