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To: Gary Ng who wrote (63470)	8/27/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, Re: "Yes I know that. But a Celeron 266 can also be overclocked to perform like a PII 300 or K6-2 300. Why didn't Celeron sell like hot cakes ?" Because the use of overclocking is an extremely small percentage trick done by hobbyists and tinkerers. Analogy: I knew a guy once that put 450 horsepower Chevy engines into Porsche 914's. A customer of his floored his modified 914 for a bit too long and the engine tore itself loose from its mountings. Off into the redwoods, tra la. Tony

To: Gary Ng who wrote (63470)	8/27/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Yes I know that. But a Celeron 266 can also be overclocked to perform like a PII 300 or K6-2 300. Why didn't Celeron sell like hot cakes ? No L2 cache on the pre-A Celerons resulting in bad reviews due to the poor Winstone 98/office software performance. Seems that Celeron 333 if running as it is supposed to be, is slower than PII 350. Of course. But, as I said, "A Celeron-A (with 128k on-die full-speed cache) is supposed to perform at roughly the same speed as a P-II at the same clock speed (300 vs. 300, etc)." 333 vs. 333, not 333 vs. 350. The C-333-A gets 26.3 Winstone 98s vs the P-II-333's 26.8 (<2% slower). On the Quake 2 test, C-300-A: 55 fps, P-II-333: 56 fps (<2% slower). On the FPU/3D rendering test, C-300-A: 32.1 pictures/h, P-II-333: 31.9 pictures/h (<1% faster). I'd call this roughly the same. The motherboards that tomshardware reviewed separately had a range of slowest to fastest of 5% so there's more of a variance there.