Esquire Celeron Pricing - Am I going crazy?

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Everytime Esquire sends through a specials sheet through for CPU's I think there is a typo, but know I'm really starting to think they really do sell them for that price - don't understand how you can make a mistake every single time on the Celeron price.

I mean, why would I buy a Celeron 2.2Ghz when I get a C2D 2.GHhz for R60 less. Am I and idiot or am I missing something here (like do you get seven cpu's for that price)?

Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I think I'm starting to go a little crazy.
 
timvdwest said:
Everytime Esquire sends through a specials sheet through for CPU's I think there is a typo, but know I'm really starting to think they really do sell them for that price - don't understand how you can make a mistake every single time on the Celeron price.

I mean, why would I buy a Celeron 2.2Ghz when I get a C2D 2.GHhz for R60 less. Am I and idiot or am I missing something here (like do you get seven cpu's for that price)?

Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I think I'm starting to go a little crazy.
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I take it you are referring to the E3200 And Celeron 430 CPUs. Yeah the E3200 is awesome value for money.
 
timvdwest said:
Everytime Esquire sends through a specials sheet through for CPU's I think there is a typo, but know I'm really starting to think they really do sell them for that price - don't understand how you can make a mistake every single time on the Celeron price.

I mean, why would I buy a Celeron 2.2Ghz when I get a C2D 2.GHhz for R60 less. Am I and idiot or am I missing something here (like do you get seven cpu's for that price)?

Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I think I'm starting to go a little crazy.
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Which cpu are you refering to ??

http://specials.esquire.co.za/2010_01_07_MidrandXpressSpecial.html

EDIT Oh ok saw it , need to find out why there is a price difference but it seems to me due to older Mobo's that only support up to 800Mhz
 
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Great, I see they fixed it. They didn't bother changing the thumbnail of the celeron though.
 
can i use that celeron on one of those cheapo motherboards? some writer lady here's pc crashed, I would like to build her one on the cheap.

Regards
 
I agree there. Celerons today are much more than what Celerons used to be. We all got used to the rubbish Celerons from the pre-Jurassic (pronounced P3-Jurassic) era. They've still got no clout compared to the proper CPUs, but at least they're not like the old ones which had no useful cache.
 
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