celeron 700mhz has fsb of 66mhz???

[jjyiz28]

this is what my friends wcpuid shows. i thought that since the 700mhz celly is based off of the p3 architecture, therefore it also shares the fsb of 100mhz. but his fsb shows up as 66. is this right? i thought 66mhz fsb was only for cellys based off of p2 architecture and since there are no 66mhz fsb p3's.

 

[AndyHui]

The Celerons below 800MHz are all 66MHz FSB.

The first Celeron with a 100MHz FSB is the 800.

Architecture doesn't have very much to do with FSB.

 

[Jeff7]

Intel needed to keep a performance gap in place between their Celerons and Pentium lines. Otherwise, you could buy a Celeron and get performance very close to the Pentium cores the Celerons were based off of - why buy high end (which would mean more money for Intel) when you can buy budget CPU's and get similar performance?

 

[jjyiz28]

thanks, i did a search on intels website also. heh

 

[WarCon]

In the right board (with a decent heatsink) alot of those 700/66 celerons will do 1050/100.

 

[0roo0roo]

really? figured those were pretty unoverclockable. i just remember the 533/566's were decent oc, and the 1.1a+ are decent oc.

 

[WarCon]

I had ordered around 10 of those for a small build for a friend and had a VH6-II laying around. I dropped one in just to see and it went to 1050 with a decent coolmaster (~$8). I was pleasantly surprised so I tried the next several and they all ran at 1050 (Prime95 stable) and a couple ran over 1100 (not much though). So I kept several of them for friends and finished building the boxes that my friend was selling (BookPC's, what a nightmare those things were/are. Most died at just over the warranty).

On a side note, we tried a few 733's and they would only do 900 or so, which put the pci/agp bus too far out of spec for my tastes. I wasn't very pleased with those.