Lancelot (Jun 18, 2001 04:21 p.m.):
Almost every Celeron should run 100% solid at 75Mhz and with default voltages! This gets you a 37.5Mhz PCI/IDE which will increase systemwide performance if your peripheral cards are upto it. But most quality stuff is upto it. The only thing with the Mendocino core is that it's full-speed cache maxes out around 550Mhz. Thus a 500@75FSB runs at 562.5Mhz which is on the edge. I have run a 400SEPP at 75 for 1.5 years without any problems at all. I wouldn't (yet) exactly call the Mendocino's obsolete! You'd be amazed how smooth my old 400SEPP still runs at 450/75 on my current mobo with lots of CL2 RAM and a ATA66 7200rpm HDD, especially when you're just browsing the web, and running office software these baby's can still rock!