Om het gat te dichten tussen de bijna niet te leveren P3-800 en de nog slechter leverbare P3-1000 released Intel vandaag de P3-850 (100MHz bussnelheid) en de P3-866 (133MHz bussnelheid). Helaas is er nog geen bios update beschikbaar die de P3-850 aan de praat kan krijgen waardoor we het in deze review van Anand nu nog even moeten doen met slechts de 866MHz benchmarks. Zoals reeds bekend uit de review van Sharky Extreme scaled deze qua prestaties vrijwel lineair ten opzichte van tragere PIII's.
For overclockers, the best choice is to stick with one of the lower clock speed processors, either the Pentium III 500E/550E/600E or similarly clocked Athlons and push them to the higher clock speeds. In most cases, this is a very feasible option since the yields on these chips are high enough that the lower end CPUs can actually hit the higher end speeds without much trouble.
If you're considering one of these new Pentium IIIs, first of all, don't expect to be able to go online to your favorite vendor and find them with much ease. Secondly, Intel's next generation 0.18-micron Celerons are due out shortly, and if all goes according to plan these Celerons will be the next major overclockers since they will be based on the same 0.18-micron process as the current Coppermine Pentium IIIs. Since these Celerons will run on a 66MHz FSB by default, they will feature pretty high clock multipliers, luckily with the slowest chips most likely debuting in the 533 - 600MHz range we are expecting to be able to overclock these babies to 800 - 900MHz.
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