Alan Woodford wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:54:16 +1200, "~misfit~"
<misfit61nz@yahoo-mung.co.nz> wrote:

The P4 Celeron is one of the most gutless processors ever made since
the first Celeron 266 and 300's which had no L2 cache. They are fine
for children and old ladies to email or do wordprocessing.

You'll get no disagreement here :-)

I have a P3 (Tualatin) Celeron here, overclocked to 1.6Ghz, that
does S@H units in 5 hours and BOINC units in just under six hours.

My old 466 Celery, wound up to 525MHz, used to run at about 1/3 the
speed of the 1.5GHz T-bird. I suspect Intel just don't want to make
them work anymore.

The CPU I mention above is a 1.4 OCed to 1.6, before that, in the same mobo,
I was running a Coppermine Celeron 600 at 900Mhz and before that a Mendicino
Celeron 400 at 545Mhz. I think you're right, the Coppermine and Tualatin
(especially, the Mendicino like your old one were good too but topped out at
~600Mhz) Celerons were just *too good* and Intel wanted a larger gap between
their premium range and their budget range.

So now the current Celeron is lobotomised and castrated. A shadow of a
processor, easilly outclassed by processors 2+ years old.

Alan "3+ days of cache, and happy now" Woodford

Same here. :-) And really pleased with my *new* Celeron build. It's almost
as fast as an XP1800+. Several BOINC units under it's belt, all around the
5:45 mark.
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~misfit~