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Retail Celeron 300 for $10

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puppyfriend

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HSC is selling brand new sealed retail celeron 300's for $10. I don't think it's hot in this day and age, but if you're looking for one you could do worse.

David
 
I guess it's a good deal. Man?? who's looking for one of these. I remeber i had to have one back in 98 but now??
 
something like this can go towards building an entire system for less than $100 to use as a firewall/proxy server/file server, so it is a pretty good deal. i have seen intel boards go for roughly $20. cases with psu for $30...
 
maybe if you had contracted someone to custom build a super beowulf clusterboard that had 200 CPU sockets =P then this would be hot
 
I couldn't find it on their site. Maybe they sold out. If it was a Celery 300A it wouldn't be a bad deal at all. Those things were famous in their day for being great overclockers. You could simply run them at 100 MHz instead of the stock 66 MHz and you had a 450 MHz processor that was almost as fast as the state-of-the-art Pentium II 450 MHz at the time. The plain old Celeron 300, on the other hand, was a pig of a processor, with no onboard cache.

I still frequently use an old AT K6-2 450 MHz. It is quite an adequate CPU for web surfing and office tasks, though I don't use it to encode MP3s too often.

BTW, Halted is hawking the very fine Linux In A Nutshell, 2nd edition (O'Reilly) for only $9.95. It is quite a good basic reference book for Linux commands. Unlike the GUI stuff, which changes all the time and is very different from Distro to Distro, this stuff is pretty universal. I think I paid about the same marked down at B&N in Oakland, but if I find myself in Santa Clara I may buy a couple of copies as gifts.
 
I guess it's a good deal. Man?? who's looking for one of these. I remeber i had to have one back in 98 but now??
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I had one overclocked to 450 Mhz and my Grandmother is using it right now to just check and read her E-MAIL. Its a good CPU just for simple things like this. Not everyone needs a 3 Ghz CPU or does gaming. BTW, I live in Santa Rosa by one of the HSC stores and I've bought lots of stuff from them with no problems.
 
I would trying calling them. It's been my experience that their website doesn't have a 1 to 1 correspondence to what's in the store. If the guy on the phone doesn't know, just tell him to look up. They are on the leftmost end cap in front of the front counter in the middle of the top shelf. There were about 10 or so left yesterday. Maybe more since the shelf box for it was full. They keep a lot of stuff in the warehouse next door.

David

Originally posted by: Praxis
I couldn't find it on their site. Maybe they sold out. If it was a Celery 300A it wouldn't be a bad deal at all. Those things were famous in their day for being great overclockers. You could simply run them at 100 MHz instead of the stock 66 MHz and you had a 450 MHz processor that was almost as fast as the state-of-the-art Pentium II 450 MHz at the time. The plain old Celeron 300, on the other hand, was a pig of a processor, with no onboard cache.

I still frequently use an old AT K6-2 450 MHz. It is quite an adequate CPU for web surfing and office tasks, though I don't use it to encode MP3s too often.

BTW, Halted is hawking the very fine Linux In A Nutshell, 2nd edition (O'Reilly) for only $9.95. It is quite a good basic reference book for Linux commands. Unlike the GUI stuff, which changes all the time and is very different from Distro to Distro, this stuff is pretty universal. I think I paid about the same marked down at B&N in Oakland, but if I find myself in Santa Clara I may buy a couple of copies as gifts.
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Assuming this is really available, if it's a Celeron 300, it isn't worth squat unless you happen to need a good DOS machine. If it's a 300 A, it's a decent CPU that will probably overclock to 450 ( ~80% success), but the only place you would save any money is the CPU and maybe the older motherboard. By the time you buy everything else for it, it would be about the same price to buy a faster, inexpensive machine.

BTW, a friend of mine is still cranking my old Cele 300 A / Abit BH6 combo @ 450. 🙂
 
maybe good for a car mp3 player but ill probably go for a k2 500 and probably underclock it so it doesnt need a fan and only a heatsink.
 
I went down to HSC the day before Christmas and confirmed that the retail Celeron is in fact the 300, not the 300A. They did, however, have a couple of retail 366 Celeries for $12.99. The 366 was almost as good an overclocker as the 300A. They supposedly routinely hit 550 MHz, though the two I tried to overclock were anemic (probably prescreened to seperate out the decent overclockers).
 
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