With 256k L2 doesn't that make it just like a 1GHz P3?
Apart from FSB, difference is a a bit higher cache latency, and nobody is really able to confirm wether the Data Prefetch Logic common to other Tualatin P3s is activated on the new Celeron or not. Not a big performance hit, expect for the FSB. A good deal faster than the older Celermine.
Hmm... 1GHz Cel-Mine $76 or a 1GHz P3 $135... How about raising the FSB to overclock?
Will this new 1.0A run in a SMP setup?
Nobody's gotten it to work, AFAIK. Doubt it will ever happen, since the 1.2 GHz Celeron has been out for a while and no sightings of a Celeron SMP setup so far.
Could this prove to be an affordable upgrade for an older board?
No. The mobo will need a VRM 8.5 compliant regulator. Powerleap makes an adapter for slot 1 boards, costs around 70$ AFAIK.
Or do you need yet another intel chipset?
More like a new revision, i815 in 'b-stepping'.
And a word of warning: seeing that many Celeron 1.2 GHz run at around 1.5 without too much hassle, I was looking forward to a 1.0@1.5 and 150 FSB which, IMO, would not have been too far off an Athlon, clock for clock.
Well, sadly it's not that easy. Forum member Oldfart and a few other brave souls at overclockers.com took the plunge and found out that going that high needs some serious overvolting.
A 1.0A at 133 FSB should be doable, but for a 1.1A it's on the edge without serious tweaking.
Preliminary results only, of course, YMMV, etc

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