Which is the best Celeron?

[XinMeng]

Hi! I'm building my first computer, and this is what I have planned out so far:

Motherboard: AOpen AX6BC, or revisions of it
Memory: 96MB of generic PC100 RAM (currently owned)
Video: Diamond Stealth III Xtreme
Sound: Creative SB Live! (currently owned)
Optical: miscellanious DVD-ROM drive
Hard Drive: IBM Deskstar IDE 7200RPM, c. 10gb

I'm wondering what the best Slot 1 celeron is to put in, for most mHz to the dollar (value)? I'm not afraid of overclocking it, as long as it will run fine, and I don't have to buy a big special hydraulic cooler, to make it run ^_^ Thank you, and feel free to make any other recommendations too ^_^

 

[toph99]

why not get a coppermine celeron and buy a cheap slotket to run it in?
if you're overclocking, try to find a celeron 533A or 566. if you aren't, get the one with the highest speed possible for your budget

 

[Trifecta]

Um, what are the things that you want to do with the computer?

If you are into games, then you might want to consider spending less money on the processor, and more on the video card. That stealth is a piece. I know, because I have one. A voodoo 2 overclocked is much better than that card.

Also, why the Aopen board. And why are you thinking slot1? get a socket board. Your processor options are much more open. Slockets are a 15 -20 loss if you get a slot 1 board.

With all that, I would recommend the 566. The celery 2's are very overclockable. And everyone seems to be having great success with that chip getting it up to 8 or 900.

 

[xtreme2k]

C566 at 850 are your best bets

get a voodoo3 2000 AGP if $ is limiting

 

[Dark4ng3l]

oh yea and forget about geting a slot 1 celeron(they are all p2 cores .25 micron)

 

[XinMeng]

I'm going to do Internet stuff and some games, I'd like an all-purpose one. The motherboard and video card got good reviews here, why are they bad? And someone told me Slot 1 was better then socket?

 

[squirrel dog]

I got two cel633's from onvia.com,both run at 950mhz@1.70 vlts with the stock intel coolers.These cels are the cbo p3 cores.They cost $105,but I had a coupon for -$200 off that I snagged from fatwallet.com so they were 85per,also free shipping.Rock on.

 

[Wixer]

Best bet to get a Cel600 with SL4NX specs or those Cel633 which runs a default voltage of 1.7Volts.These are very overclockable.

Wix

 

[kylebisme]

XinMeng, your getting your advice from the wrong people. buy a duron and a geforce mx if your looking for a good setup at a good price, and dont by anything from Aopen, there are much beter boards at the same price.