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Which celeron are you running? overclocked to what speed? what motherboard?
are you cooling it? any more info you want to share is appreciated. Thanks.

Just get the Celeron 300a and an AbitBX or BH6 motherboard.....
It'll push to 450 no problem, but you can get it above 500, just watch the heat....
Josh Taylor (remove "NOSPAM" from email to reply)

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             Luke
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Josh...

What's a typical "street price" for the above combo?  Thanks...

Andre

A 300A goes for about US$150 and the BH6 motherboards sell for less than
US$100.
The combo sells for less than a PII-300 and if you check
www.cyrellis.com and www.tomshardware.com you'll see that in every
business and *** test they perform equally.

No prob that you're not Josh... thanks for the info.

Impressive!

Curious... WHY is there a "Celeron"?  What feature(s) does it lack over
a pure Pentium, or if no lack, how did Intel get it so price effective?  

Good tip, this "Celeron" idea...

Andre

For some reason, they reacted strongly to the industry's complaints
about the performance (although I don't believe it's performance was as
low as the Cyrix or Winchip CPUs) and built in a small cache to help
boost performance.  To save money, they built the cache into the chip.
The drawback (for THEM!) was that the cache would have to run at the
same speed as the chip (a PII's cache run's at half-chip speed).  So the
performance on business apps and games is the same as PII's at the same
speed.

I'm still finding articles (check out Gamecenter's horrid review of the
Celeron) that think the Celeron is still a dog which is good for us,
since it keeps the prices so low.

Regards

Dave

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