A P3-667@750 for A Celly 800&+128RAM ?

[F0]

Hello boys and girls, what do you think about that deal, shall i do it? Is that i have now good enought or to take that Celly and try above that 1000MhZ I think can do it on my ABIT133 - RAID @133FSB, now that P3 is 667@750 VC1.80 VIO 3.6 and 50C. The temp is litle too much but that's whitout special cooling, I'm from Bulgaria and I can't find better fan so...... well what to do? That P3 work at maximum 760 but VC1.9 and 53-55 so it isn't big deal 10MhZ so it is at 750. Will the Celly go above 133FSB with that same fan?

[outhouse]

Well the cellies actually get hotter then the P3, You could always mail order a good HSF to get yout temps down, i bet you could get even more out of your p3 if you got your temps down. Well you a have a tough decision for the trade because you wont know how high it will overclock and with the cooling you have now you might burn it up if you try overclocking it all! I think if you had a better HSF [heatsinkfan] then the 800 may give you better performance. but to get better performance you will have to overclock it too 950 to equal the p3 so if you overclock the cellie to 1000 and have to buy a new HSF to get it there it may be better to stay with the p3 however allot of the cellie 800's will do more then a 1000 check the CPU database and see what kind of overclock the rest of the folks are getting with that CPU.

[Flu!d]

I would not trade a PIII 667 @ 750 Mhz for a celeron @ 800 Mhz.....I replaced my PIII 667 @ 750 with a PIII 1000 @ 1060 (getting higher!) and there really wasnt that much between them. When comparing PIII's and Celeron II's speed isn't always everything - there are other factors to consider, ie: A PIII 667 @ 750 is using a 150 mhz FSB....think of the efficiencies gained, it will probably benchmark as high as a P3 800 or higher in games....Especially Quake III (high memory bandwidth), not to mention the faster and bigger level 2 cache. I would stick with the P3 and mabye get a good video card.

[Pinky]

Flu!d (Jun 21, 2001 02:17 a.m.):
I would not trade a PIII 667 @ 750 Mhz for a celeron @ 800 Mhz.....I replaced my PIII 667 @ 750 with a PIII 1000 @ 1060 (getting higher!) and there really wasnt that much between them. When comparing PIII's and Celeron II's speed isn't always everything - there are other factors to consider, ie: A PIII 667 @ 750 is using a 150 mhz FSB....think of the efficiencies gained, it will probably benchmark as high as a P3 800 or higher in games....Especially Quake III (high memory bandwidth), not to mention the faster and bigger level 2 cache. I would stick with the P3 and mabye get a good video card.

Sounds like good advice since celerons are not top performers and there's a loss of power when you step, even up, to a celeron. P3 are much faster, especially at 3d like the prior post suggests. The numbers are roughly like this:

Celeron @ 667 OC to 1000 = Pentium 3 @ 750

In your case, you'd have to get a celeron 966 to match your current setup, and they don't even exist.