Firingsquad heeft een review gepost van de nieuwe 466Mhz Celeron. Een Celeron koop je om 'm te overklokken (IMHO), maar met een multiplier van 7 blijft er waarschijnlijk niet meer over dan 7x75=525Mhz. Haalbaar?
As ever, overclocking with the Abit board was a streamlined process. The multiplier is locked at 7.0, which only gave us room to play with the bus speed setting. Taking it a little higher than the its default 66 MHz, we first tried 75Mhz, which resulted at 525 MHz. The Celeron booted up fine, POSTed, went through its paces, and Windows loaded up. This was at the default voltage of 2.0V, so we were rather pleased, hoping that there would be a margin for more speed. We ran a few benchmarks at 525 MHz just to see if it would crash easily, but after several hours, everything seemed solid.The next logical step was to hit the 83 MHz bus speed. This would result in a 581 MHz bus speed - no mean feat for the Celeron! The system POSTed, went through the startup processes, and then froze on the Windows screen. Well, that's nothing a little voltage increase shouldn't be able to take of, so back into the Softmenu we go. Successive attempts to boot up at 2.05V, 2.10V, 2.20V, and 2.30V yielded the same freeze on the Windows startup screen. The version of Softmenu that we were using did not let us go any higher than 2.30V, but that is probably as far as we wanted to take it. If it takes more voltage than that, then it was not meant to be.
