The Celeron and Pentium Processors are found in a majority of home computer systems. When difference the two processors it should be first understand that there are different types of Pentium processors - the original Pentium all the way to the Pentium 4. The Celeron processors are more or less the same, although you will find them in a wide variety of speeds.

The Intel Celeron processor was designed to be a low-cost option to the Pentium processor line. The Celeron is just a downgraded Pentium that almost anyone can afford. To begin, Celeron chips have a smaller L2 cache 9128kb evaluate with 512kb in the Pentium 4 Northwood, which translates into slower processing speeds. Actually, current Celerons have a clock speed limit of about 2.0GHz, where as the Pentium for is capable of speed in excess of 3.0GHz. In addition, the Pentium runs at a lower core voltage because it is more energy efficient.