Celeron 800 vs oclocked p3700 @ 875

[TheGhoul]

I have the chance to get a Celeron chip for free (owed money with an employer.) How fast would I need to get the celeron to compare to my P3700 @875 or should I get a celeron 900? Nothing in the database to say how they overclock. Second question can a P3 933 be oclocked since it is at the 133 buss already. Rest of my gear , Asus geforce 256 ddr, maxtor ata 66 7200 27 gig drive, soundblaster pci 128 and a realtek nic card plus Yamaha 8x8x24 burner. Will be using a Global Win fop 32 heatsink

Thanks
The ghoul

[Lancelot]

If you can, I would go for the P3-933 which will do 1Ghz for sure (prolly at default voltages), and it will make a difference compared to the Celerons. If you take the here generally accepted rule of OCed Celeron is like a P3 150-200Mhz slower in speed. You'll see that my Celeron800@1056 would perform like around a P3-850-900 which is where you're at right now already. Your right about nothing about the Celeron 900 in the database cuz it's a brand new cDO chip.

[William]

yes, the typical equation is 200mhz less, but i don't know at the 800 and 850 celies run at the same bus speed. So I can't really say. But the Celey 800 is a pretty good overclocker and will probably run at 1ghz.

[Lancelot]

Yeah it really is kinda hard to know the diffrence when they run at the same FSB. (Celeron OCed to 133Mhz compared to a P3 @ 133 default) I can only compare with another win2k PC in my family. It has a P3-733 with an Asus mobo and more RAM than me, but it's noticeably slower in booting win2k than my OCed Celeron is. On the other hand my inlaws have a P3-933 and this thing flies! (under win98se)