iXBT Labs heeft een review in elkaar gedraaid over de Intel Celeron II 677. Het overclocken van deze CPU was geen probleem, de magische 1 GHz Barrière werd doorbroken alleen de performance kwam zelfs dan nog niet boven Coppermine 733 niveau uit: een beetje teleurstellend dus:
Speaking about Intel Celeron 667, we should point out that despite a relatively high frequency, it still failed to show something extraordinary in any of the tests run: it didn't beat the youngest Intel Pentium III on Coppermine. Therefore keeping in mind that in some shops its initial price is higher than that of Intel Pentium III 500E and even 550E, it hardly has a shining future ahead. Having left the FSB frequency equal to 66MHz, Intel automatically deprived its processors of any hope to succeed.
As for the chance to overclock this processor to 1GHz, impressive value appears the only nice thing. The performance of 1000MHz Celeron turned out even lower than that shown by Pentium III 733, which means that an overclocked to 750MHz Intel Pentium III 500E will easily leave Celeron 1000 far behind.
Well, we think that AMD's Duron positioned as a solution for the Low-End market and lacking any "artificial brakes" may appear a much better choice to make in terms of price-to-performance ratio. The only thing that may change the situation in the low-cost processors sector is the integrated Intel Timna postponed till 2001. Besides the processor core, this CPU will also have the North Bridge with integrated graphics, which will allow assembling very cheap systems.
Conclusie: Als de Duron ook maar een klein beetje zover kan overclocken als de Celeron II dan zijn dat wat mij betreft weer een paar procentjes marktaandeel voor AMD meer .