Celeron overclockers please read

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)

dont forget, you need top quality ram.. pc100. The better it is, faster u can o/c Greets, Luke www.fan.net.au/~stevephi/overrev/

Josh Taylor said: Josh... What's a typical "street price" for the above combo? Thanks... Andre

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> Josh Taylor said: > > 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) > Josh... > What's a typical "street price" for the above combo? Thanks... > Andre

I'm not Josh, but if you go to www.pricewatch.com you can find the cheapest Internet prices. 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

> 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 Why is there a Celeron? Good question. As far as I'm concerned it was Intel's mistake. They had the right idea, creating the Celeron 266 and 300 (not the 300A) as a cheap, cacheless processor whose performance was below the PII. 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.

For any over-clocking thoughts, go to http://www.tomshardware.com , it is the absolute best. Regards Dave >Anyone tried overclock Celeron 266? How fast can it go?

>Anyone tried overclock Celeron 266? How fast can it go? Fairly good success rate (I'd estimate in the 80% range) at 448. Runs at about a PII-350 pace... It's all anyone is talking about...

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