Table Of Contents
1: Introduction
2: Graphics & Audio Features
3: D810E2CA3 Motherboard
4: Intel Celeron 900MHz
5: Benchmarks
4: Conclusion

Before commenting the SiSoft Sandra 2001 Pro (version 8.11) CPU Benchmark results, let see to what correspond MIPS & MFLOPS:

MFLOPS: The Whetstone benchmark is widely used in the computer industry as a measure of performance. Floating-point arithmetic is most significant in scientific, engineering, statistical and computer-aided design (CAD) programs. It is also a small component in spreadsheet, paint and drawing programs. Word processing programs typically do no floating-point computations at all. The Whetstone does a lot of floating-point arithmetic, some memory access, and a little integer arithmetic.  

MIPS: The Dhrystone benchmark is widely used in the computer industry as a measure of performance. Dhrystone is a synthetic benchmark, designed to contain a representative sample of operations normally performed by applications. They don't calculate a result of any kind, but they do perform the sort of complicated sequences of instructions that real applications use. The Dhrystone result is determined by measuring the time it takes to perform these sequences of instructions. Simple integer arithmetic, logic decisions, and memory accesses are the dominant CPU activities in most Windows programs. The Dhrystone benchmark makes intensive use of these areas.

As you can see, reading the results, the Celeron 900MHz literraly blows the AMD Duron 800MHz and performs much better than its predecessors. According to SiSoft the Intel Celeron 900MHz used in combination with the Intel D810E2CA3 motherboard is 6% more powerful than the Celeron 850MHz used on the same motherboard. With a 50MHz frequency increase, the Celeron 900MHz manages to bring an unexpected level of performance.