[CoSD]Headbanger schrijft "Bij Tom's Hardware Guide hebben ze een enorme lap tekst (15 pagina's!) geschreven over het overklokken van de Pentium III CPU. Hij vergelijkt de katmai met de coppermine, de coppermine met de Athlon. Daarnaast heeft hij er een flinke stapel benchmarks bij gemaakt zodat je vannacht, als je niet kan slapen van de hitte iets te doen hebt om de nacht mee door te komen ":
Despite all current shortages: Intel's Pentium III is still the most popular processor. Meanwhile, AMD's Athlon is steadily stealing little peaces of the gigantic cake. With the introduction of the Thunderbird and Spitfire cores, I expect Pentium III prices to drop considerably.
If you are out for a Pentium III processor: It's very easy to spend a lot of money now. Considering your real demands are more important than ever. In my eyes, the 100 MHz models are really old-fashioned today, as they cannot hold up to their 133 MHz brothers. Most mainboards using the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset can be configured very flexible regarding the bus speed issue. A 133 MHz CPU using 100 MHz SDRAM is no problem. You can also run a 100 MHz FSB processor while using PC133 memory.
Overclockers should go for the Pentium III models 500E, 533E, 550E, 600E, 600EB, 667EB or 733EB. The higher the clock speed, the bigger the risk that overclocking won't work properly. As long as Intel is having difficulties supplying enough high speed processors, I wouldn't expect too much more clock speed headroom from most CPUs (particularly the mid-range models 733 and 800 MHz).