why are Intel Celerons so slow?

[slaphapy]

this isn't a "help me" type of question, i was just curious what makes celerons so slow.. is it what they use to build it, or how they build it or... what?

same for AMD durons... I know they are really just made for people that can't really afford a new Pentium processor or a new Athlon processor because they are really cheap.

anyway, i was just curious why they are so slow...

[gryphon]

Intel Celeron processors have less level 2 cache in them.

[Andrew]

They are cheap. ;)

When I was buying a computer someone said to get a celeron because they are cheap...but I knew better as they are cheap crap.

[gryphon]

They are cheap, but not crap for all situations. Office and just internet applications should run ok on them for example.

Although for gaming and grafical or musical editing you are correct . . ;)

[number6]

I think they are slower because of the reduced on chip cache and also because of a smaller instruction pipeline. In more general terms the cheaper chips have less processing logic integrated on the chip and end up with a lot of instructions having to wait in a queue which makes your programs slow down.