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To: Scot who wrote (109503)	5/5/2000 5:00:00 PM
From: Scot	Respond to of 1578510

Here's a contrarian view from what we've heard about the new celerons: voodooextreme.com If you were around to witness the overclocking frenzy that occurred a year ago with the Celeron 300A, prepare yourself for another similar event with the coming of the new FC-PGA Coppermine Celeron 566. The overclocking community is about to be presented with another crave for speed with Intel?s latest Celeron, which will have the same over-clocking potential, only on a much larger scale. With its new .18 micron core, 128kb on-die full-speed cache, and the addition of Streaming SIMD (fancy name for the Intel answer to 3Dnow!), the Celeron 566 is just asking to be overclocked. I was sent a Coppermine Celeron 566 the other day by the fine folks at Gen-X Tech Computers to see just how easy they could make getting an overclocked system up and running. As I type this review I?m cruising along at a stable 850Mhz with not a single problem due to heat (too bad I can?t say that about the rest of the rest of the installation). Gen-X sells the same kit that I received, and is guaranteed to run at 850Mhz for at least a year. Included in the kit is a FC-PGA Celeron Coppermine 566Mhz processor, Asus P3V motherboard, Iwill Slocket II, and to top it off, a Golden Orb Cooler (the funniest cooling fan you?ve ever seen). Over the course of this review, we?ll look over the 566@850 Mhz combo and see if it can bring more bang for your buck than its new Pentium III siblings.