celeron at 900 vs. pentium

[faceman]

First has anyone compared the benchmarks of overclocked celerons to the equivalent pentiums? If so please give me some examples.

I am currently running a celeron 600 at 900mhz but when I run norton benchmark it barely gets to the pentium II at 450 comparison.

I am new to benchmarks and would enjoy some explanations from some experts.

Thanks for any help.

P.S. I am running a bh6 version 1 with flashed bios. 256 megs pc133 ram.

[wild_andy_c]

Use Sandra 2001.

You should find that a Celeron 900/100 should benchmark about the same as a P3 700/100

[EsCuLAp]

funny I have EXACTLY the same problems... Celly 600 @ 900 showing similar results... looking for that Sandra now too :-))

[Allan Nielsen]

Yeah, the lack of L2 cache over the P3 makes the Celeron a little slower than an equal Pentium3 at the same FSB - but also somewhat cheaper! :)

[floyd]

also when overclocking a PIII, you can push the fsb to 133 easily which gives more bandwidth..............

[gdog]

Firingsquad benchmarks show a 566 at 952mhz is slower than a p3 650 e.I really cannto see the point in buying a celeron, unless you already had a bx motherboard.

[Joe Conflict]

[Instead of comparing it to a P III, try setting back at 600 mhz and see how much you've gained. you'll feel better.. AND have saved money too

[gdog]

yep dont compare to a p3 cos youll never come close.And for that matter dont compare it to a duron either,cos they are quite a bit faster, although i still wouldnt have 1.

[EsCuLAp]

So I tried that Sandra thing now and I really have to say that a celly 600@900 is NOT that bad at all... especially for the hot price!!

Sandra shows as following:
My celly 600@900
Drystone --> ALU 2441 MIPS
Whetstone --> FPU 1215 MFLOPS
compared to PIII 1GHz on i850
Drystone --> ALU 2720 MIPS
Whetstone --> FPU 1336 MFLOPS

so, concerning the price of a PIII 1GHz (which is not even available here yet) - which costs 4 to 5 times more (!!!) I really LOVE my celly...