Originally posted by: dullard
There are many places that benchmark the Celerons on occasion (they don't benchmark all the Celerons though).
Tom's Hardware benches a 2.0 GHz Celeron. There are others too.
The Celerons currently hit 2.6 GHz, but 2.7 and 2.8 GHz are rumored to come by the end of the year.
On the games, MPEG-2, tests:
The 2.6 GHz Celeron would be near the bottom of the Athlon XPs and the P4s.
On the PCMark, file compression, Office tests:
The 2.6 GHz Celeron would be about the same as the equivalent Athlon XPs and the same clocked P4s.
On the MP3 maker test:
The 2.6 GHz Celeron would be right near the top Athlons XPs, but far behind the P4s.
Sunner was correct (one minute before me): gaming is awful on a Celeron. It is great for businesses and grandparents that only do office work though.
However I think he is wrong that most users game - instead most computers are business/school/families that don't game.