Brand New Dual-Core in 2022: Intel Celeron G6900 CPU Review
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People kept wondering why their PCs were so slow...
Thankfully there are now PS/XBox Consoles for the technically impaired, and it has broadened the Gaming Audience.
Celerons have no real use, outside of ripping off people IMHO. No point to use these, even any other older Gen CPU does better for Office Work and light usage.
Date: 2022-02-05
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Comments and reviews: 9
TheXymelin
To be honest, I find it unfair to do same tests for this CPU. Its clearly not a gaming CPU. Its clearly not meant for heavy workloads. Its clearly will have terrible synthetic test score compared to most ( all? ) nowdays CPU. Imagine these office workloads. You need to be able open excel, word and some tabs of web. If it can do that, its good for what its most likly meant. And i cant remember, when there was any realy low end CPU for this kind load. Not all are tech companies. Not everyone got some computer guy in work. So there is waranty what could cover some problems. Then why pay more if it can get work done and you dont have to worry about waranty for 2 years?
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To be honest, I find it unfair to do same tests for this CPU. Its clearly not a gaming CPU. Its clearly not meant for heavy workloads. Its clearly will have terrible synthetic test score compared to most ( all? ) nowdays CPU. Imagine these office workloads. You need to be able open excel, word and some tabs of web. If it can do that, its good for what its most likly meant. And i cant remember, when there was any realy low end CPU for this kind load. Not all are tech companies. Not everyone got some computer guy in work. So there is waranty what could cover some problems. Then why pay more if it can get work done and you dont have to worry about waranty for 2 years?
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MrVipitis
If they can sell this one for 60bucks, and it got the same internals as the 600bucks one. You can kinda feel how much markup you pay. But that money will be used by Intel to make more products. Making a COU for 60 is kinda impossible. The cost per processed wafer is probably 70-80 , and Intel gets a little over s hundred died per wafer. So this product is the really lowest bin they use for recycling. Meaning that it's only possible because Intel sells the higher bins for far more money.
You wouldn't even find a mainboard for this price tag. So maybe it's something you find in a laptop for 250 ?
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If they can sell this one for 60bucks, and it got the same internals as the 600bucks one. You can kinda feel how much markup you pay. But that money will be used by Intel to make more products. Making a COU for 60 is kinda impossible. The cost per processed wafer is probably 70-80 , and Intel gets a little over s hundred died per wafer. So this product is the really lowest bin they use for recycling. Meaning that it's only possible because Intel sells the higher bins for far more money.
You wouldn't even find a mainboard for this price tag. So maybe it's something you find in a laptop for 250 ?
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Gianluca
Let's face it, it's garbage. Maybe enough for office work but without hyperthreading it's just a pisspoor budget CPU. I ahve a notebook with a Celeron N4500. which is pretty decent for everyday tasks and even simple games (hell, Gamecube emulation at native resolution is pretty good, atleast for Wind Waker), but that thing draws 6 Watts, with a builtin iGPU. This draws 46 Watts with performance that's not even double the 6 Watt chip and a pretty mediocre iGPU too. Barely any better than the one in the mobile Celeron if at all better..
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Let's face it, it's garbage. Maybe enough for office work but without hyperthreading it's just a pisspoor budget CPU. I ahve a notebook with a Celeron N4500. which is pretty decent for everyday tasks and even simple games (hell, Gamecube emulation at native resolution is pretty good, atleast for Wind Waker), but that thing draws 6 Watts, with a builtin iGPU. This draws 46 Watts with performance that's not even double the 6 Watt chip and a pretty mediocre iGPU too. Barely any better than the one in the mobile Celeron if at all better..
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KajurN
It's honestly not even a viable choice cost wise for a super cheap webbrowsing PC because we don't have sub 70usd motherboards. It's at the level where a Chromebook might be a better purchase than building a Celeron rig. There ARE usecases for it, but they're so incredibly niche that i feel like 2c2t celerons are pretty much dead on arrival. 2c4t on the other hand would be okay? Why not add hyperthreading to Celerons while keeping Pentiums 4c/4t to make it viable while still preserving Intel's beloved product segmentation?
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It's honestly not even a viable choice cost wise for a super cheap webbrowsing PC because we don't have sub 70usd motherboards. It's at the level where a Chromebook might be a better purchase than building a Celeron rig. There ARE usecases for it, but they're so incredibly niche that i feel like 2c2t celerons are pretty much dead on arrival. 2c4t on the other hand would be okay? Why not add hyperthreading to Celerons while keeping Pentiums 4c/4t to make it viable while still preserving Intel's beloved product segmentation?
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Pawelr98
With those celerons, performance at games/productive is not as important as say power consumption for NAS/server use. This thing can accept DDR5 which has ECC by default. I would really love to see things like idle power consumption for very basic builds, that is, 300W PSU + iGPU + bottom end H610 board and compare it to some other CPU's. High end boards, top end GPU's and powerful PSU's just ruin the typical review which does include the power consumption charts for idle and load.
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With those celerons, performance at games/productive is not as important as say power consumption for NAS/server use. This thing can accept DDR5 which has ECC by default. I would really love to see things like idle power consumption for very basic builds, that is, 300W PSU + iGPU + bottom end H610 board and compare it to some other CPU's. High end boards, top end GPU's and powerful PSU's just ruin the typical review which does include the power consumption charts for idle and load.
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ryo
There s something I m always curious about. Can fps caps help reduce frame time spikes? I often use fps caps to help with cooling(using a laptop). Or, in games that high fps breaks it. But can it help in other places? Perhaps I ll test it myself. But it would be nice to get a potentially in depth answer on this.
Also side question can this cpu run crisis? You know the game that is limited to like two threads anyways.
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There s something I m always curious about. Can fps caps help reduce frame time spikes? I often use fps caps to help with cooling(using a laptop). Or, in games that high fps breaks it. But can it help in other places? Perhaps I ll test it myself. But it would be nice to get a potentially in depth answer on this.
Also side question can this cpu run crisis? You know the game that is limited to like two threads anyways.
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vegeta
As an exclusive user and provider of Linux PCs, I don't care about it, but some of you might want to remember the Windows 11 compatibility problem if you're looking at older used CPUs. I'm having a hard time finding authoritative information about the current status after all of Micro soft's flip-flopping, but it looks like anything 7th gen or older may be unsupported.
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As an exclusive user and provider of Linux PCs, I don't care about it, but some of you might want to remember the Windows 11 compatibility problem if you're looking at older used CPUs. I'm having a hard time finding authoritative information about the current status after all of Micro soft's flip-flopping, but it looks like anything 7th gen or older may be unsupported.
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So
Part of the problem is Windows 10/11. The system itself is severely bloated so it makes a 2 core CPU to appear worse than it actually is. For office use or even light/retro gaming is more than ok if you want a new build, but it's mandatory to install a better OS like Linux. I'd get that Pentium G7400 just for the extra threads though, provided you can buy one at MSRP.
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Part of the problem is Windows 10/11. The system itself is severely bloated so it makes a 2 core CPU to appear worse than it actually is. For office use or even light/retro gaming is more than ok if you want a new build, but it's mandatory to install a better OS like Linux. I'd get that Pentium G7400 just for the extra threads though, provided you can buy one at MSRP.
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ahmed
whoever planning on gaming on this CPU will use low settings... would of been good if you compared your settings with low just for the sake of people that wanna game on it.
it's time consuming and out of your standardized testing I know and thank you very much for the review, but that is what people are expecting to see when they think about this CPU anyways.
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whoever planning on gaming on this CPU will use low settings... would of been good if you compared your settings with low just for the sake of people that wanna game on it.
it's time consuming and out of your standardized testing I know and thank you very much for the review, but that is what people are expecting to see when they think about this CPU anyways.
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