I know 2 people who are running 266 Celeron chips at 400/100 without any
problems under win95/NT. The lack of L2 cache makes these chips extremely
friendly to over clocking. If your not going to overclock the Celeron
it's not worth the $ since the lack of L2 cache makes them weak performers.
If you look at the cost of the two assuming the system will be running at
100 mhz bus speed you'll see that the Celeron is not a bad deal.
All prices are from www.pricewatch.com
PII 400 - $750.00
PII Celeron 266 - $119.00
Abit BX6 MB - $150.00
Supermicro Case (6 fan model- price is from supermicro direct): $170.00
2 64 meg PC-100 SDRAM modules: $150.00
If you want to go conservative you could drop the system back to an 83 mhz
bus and run the chip around 300-333 (I'm not sure of the math on this).
That still saves you a ton of $ since a PII 333 is about $460.00.
Now granted there are drawbacks to overcocking ie failures and PCI card
compatability. If done properly (ie proper cooling) the system should run
stable for a long time. I'm on my second overclocked box , one with an AMD
(k6-200 clocked at 225/75) and the other with an Intel (a p233 clocked at
266/75) and I have never had a 1 problem. Buy 2 backup chips if your
worried, you'll still be a few hundered bucks ahead. Just my $.02
scott
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On 6/5/98, at 10:45 AM, Ed Jaeger wrote:
>Check out http://www.tomshardware.com/celeronto100.html. Flames about
ethics
>of overclocking to /dev/null.
>
>Stephen Zedalis wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
>>
>> Celerons only work at 66MHz system bus speeds. There are no plans
>> currently for 100Mhz.
>
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