Intel Celeron (Mendocino)

The bosses at Intel have finally decided that they cant waste any processors any more. Its takes too much room in the industry to manufacture too many chips because they dont have many fabrication plants to do the job. Basically they had to find a way to make lots of different chips very quickly. Well here's the clever part. The Celeron II (not official name) is simply a PIII, well I say simply a PIII but thats what they are. Only difference is they are faulty PIII's. Not faulty as in they dont work, but faulty as in half of the 256k cache doesnt work. All Intel have done to these chips is disable the bad half of the cache and there you have a shiney ...  Read the complete review

A US based company is selling pre-tested Celeron 903 for £100. With this, you get a Celeron 533Mhz pre-tested at 903Mhz, Abit Sloket III, and the famous Golden Ord cooler. In my opinion, the testing procedure is quite robust. This is all you need to upgrade your old and tired Celeron 300A system. Before you proceed, make sure your motherboard is able to supply the 1.8V core voltage. No problem with new mobos. Need to be careful with old mobo. Write enquiry e-mail to the manufacturer (they do reply). I know the Abit BH6 rev 1.0 could (need to update the BIOS). Even if the mobo supplies 1.8V, the speed displayed during POST may not be correct, which is annoying to ...  Read the complete review

The Celeron has been around for a while now and, due to the fact that it is a cut-down version of the Pentium 3 that runs at a slower bus speed (66MHz for the Celeron compared to 100 MHz for the P3), with a little TLC and a lot of cooling, it can often be made to run at speeds far greater than the advertised values. In this respect, it is not as good as AMD's Duron processor (see my review of that for details), but for owners of BX boards, this can be a cheap upgrade (see your motherboard manufacturer's website for details of whether it will run Celerons), as all that is required is the CPU and a *decent* heatsink & fan, rather than a new processor and ...  Read the complete review

Working in the field of computers as I do, I am priveleged to work with all kinds of PC`s at all sorts of specifications. My own PC is based on a celeron 533 which I recently installed as replacement for a celeron 400. The 533 costs around £90.00 for an OEM version, slightly more for a retail version the differences being the retail version comes with a heavy duty heatsink/fan and a three year limited guarantee from Intel. comparing the celeron to an equivalent Pentium 111, the difference in performance is not immediately obvious. The celeron has the disadvantage of a lower bus speed (66Mhz) and smaller cache (128KB) but in normal applications such as ...  Read the complete review

The Celerons have been known as the 'budjet' end of the Intel range. However it is well known that they overclock very well, giving a substantial performance increase. It is important to have the right CPU to do this as some will achieve higher speeds easier than others. The current best performers are the CII566 and CII600. To overclock any CPU you need to be able to adjust the 'Bus speed' (FSB). This is the rate the memory runs at, which for Celerons is 66mhz. Some Motherboards, particulary Abit & Asus, make this very easy. For a Celeron it is easy with almost any m/b as all you need is PC100 SDRAM and set the bus speed as 100mhz. When your PC ...  Read the complete review