Intel officially launches Celeron 2!!!

[Maniac]

That's right, the dream chip is coming. It will run on a 66mhz bus, meaning 850mhz looks to be easily attainable with good air-cooling. Not bad for $167!

[Technoid]

A dream chip would be a celeron with a standard fsb of 100MHz!

some months ago when coppermine rumors where begining iheard a good one about celerons at 100MHz and P3 coppermine at 133MHz.



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[Nuno]

A 500 Mhz Athlon beats a 600 Mhz SSE Celeron. How sad.
But the celeron is good value, though. Maybe not the cheap speed demon we would want, but I guess Intel learned the lesson when regular celerons were performing on par with PII at the same clock speed, for one third of the price.

[Dyre]

At Celeron on a 100 bus would be worthless for o'cers, as the multiplier would be too low and you would have to be running in the 150 mHz FSB range. This is why pIII's arent good for o'cing either! Im sorry, no ones system is going to be stable at 150 fsb....

with a 66 bus, ocing is much more feasable...

[Maniac]

The Celeron2 will be cheap and fast! When I O/C mine to 850mhz it will blow ANY Athlon right out of the water.

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[Guyver]

Maniac, I don't doubt that it will be fast, but I'd watch that universal comparison... There's some mighty fast Athlon rigs out there... (And they OC as well) - Right Greebe??

Guyv

[Alfie]

Spitfires are right around the corner,if one judges by the talk around town,they sound quite good!
Problem being, I haven't heard any talk about a mobo to put them on!

[Greebe]

You bet your sweet bippy on that one Guyv!
Glad to see U online again, too

I'm not sure if I'll get a Spitfire (eh maybe) but they sure look sweet and from what I hear... will be another nail in Intel.

Dyre, Rags has had his running stable @ 150mHz FSB and that was using Crucial (Micron) 7E mem, which I happen to have 256 megs of.

Alfie, they are SlotA cpu's, so the current stock of Athlon MB's out will happily do.

Maniac, while you crank your Celeron to 850 (more or less)... I've been there, done that for four + months already. And at a cost of $238 total to do. Don't get me wrong... I like my old celery 300a @ 464, especially when it was $78 for a retail and it's sitting pretty in my BH6/MilG200 sys too!

Now if a certain customer doesn't reply to my hails for a correct return address, I'll be stuck with his Athlon 700(250nm)@950 (didn't test higher). FYI the 2.9ns L2's on it will do better than 2.35 ns ie 850 1:2 latency! Sweet

(actually his non responce concerns me very much... and hope he isn't seriously ill or something)

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[Wombat]

The Spitfires will run on motherboards using AMD's 760 chips. Motherboards using the 760 should be out June-ish. Motherboards using the 770 (dual CPU, and other stuff) shortly after.

[Jorden]

Wasn't that my new Athlon, Mike? Oh, errr, it was to be a surprise, right? So I'll send you my new address in a jiffy

Jord.

[Wombat]

950.

Lucky bastard

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[Greebe]

Uhduh, did I say standard SlotA's? Good grief, must not drink so much Tequilla, hiccup!

[Alfie]

Spitfires are due out at the end of this month,Socket A boards aren't due until June?
What the heck kind of deal is that!

[Maniac]

This is the real deal folks. Check it out!!
http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardwa...lermine&page=1

Strange though how a celeron 450(100fsb) crushes a celeron2 at 700(66fsb) in Q3...

[Alfie]

"According to PCTECH hardware website, they recieved both of the ES of AMD's spitfire and thunderbird processors recently,and tested with CPUMARK clock to clock speed (600Mhz)". CPUMARK
THUNDERBIRD 69.3
SPITFIRE 61.9
K7 512K 56.3
PIII 256K 55.7
PIII 512K 44.3
CELERON SSE (FSB 66MHZ) 41.6
CELERON SSE (FSB 100MHZ) 48.2


"Because the ES Samples' frequency aren't locked,so they try to overclock, when the thunderbird reaches 850Mhz,the testman is so suprised because it's CPUMARK have reached the mark beyond 100!!, of course this is the fastest record ever have been reproted. They try to publish more complete tests result soon"

This was over on JC's links.
If true,rather interesting
http://www.jc-news.com/pc/