Anyone still running a Celeron 266...

[SaltyNuts]

Overclocked to 448? Or a Celeron 300 overclocked to 450? The 266 overclocked to 448 was my favorite chip of all time for some reason. Like, it was lacking cache, but you didn't give a redactedbecause it cost like $66 and it made up for it with raw clock speed...

Anyone still rocking these?




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[justoh]

It's been like 18 years, so highly doubtful. I had dual 300's at 450. Think I had to run Linux to use them. Maybe nt 4.0 as well. Don't remember. For some reason I remember the “r_smp 1” setting in q3. I had the 266 as well.

 

[lightmanek]

No, I had one way back and it was 300A to 450MHz!
I still have two AMD K6-2 systems, one of them is K6-2+ 550 @600MHz 😀 Bought it early this year, CPU that is, rest of it had for years!

 

[SPBHM]

if you like discussing old hardware you will lots of cool things on http://vogons.org/

I never had a OG Celeron, but until a couple of years ago I was running a PII 400 on my win98 pc, I lowered the fsb to 66 and disabled l2 cache to run a few tests (making it effectively the same as a celeron 266), it was not fast, but I would take one over K6-2, because once you OC it is not to bad at all and the platform is way nicer to use, also the Celeron 300A was the real beast due to the ondie l2, easy OC to 450 and very nice pricing