4 ms·
Celeron 300A, the relative poorer man's Pentium
by alliao 7y ago
Celeron 300A, the relative poorer man's Pentium
- wtallis 7y agoWeren't they also supported by the Abit BP6 motherboard, letting you use two of them as poorer man's Xeons?
- Zenst 7y agoYes, I owned two of those - alas they ended up being the period of bad capacitors but for the money - wow. Was amazing and for many, one of the only dual cpu systems they ever owned as a home user - even to this day unless you buy a cheap second hand workstations/server platform of ebay or the like.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- rootusrootus 7y agoIndeed they were. I had that exact setup. Overclocked the hell out of them. Unlike the 550 MHz someone else suggested, I'm 97.6% sure I only had them clocked at 450 MHz.
- StillBored 7y agoI built a bunch of them and still have mine in the attic. But alas your probably like me and by the time I actually purchased one for myself the overclocking abilities were much less than the original ones which went from 300->500Mhz fairly easily. IIRC its because Intel was selling 400 and 450Mhz ones and binning all the good ones into the upper tier bins.
- milesward 7y agoYup, dual 450 celery was my gaaaangster setup at my silly startup :)
- dusted 7y agoDual celery story: Me being around 14, not allowed to build my own PC, but I got to spec it, I ordered dual CPU's. The company put in a dual slot 1 motherboard, and then two celerons in slot1 adapters.. that didn't support SMP. After complaining for a while, they traded the two celerons and adapters for a single P3 (I think I was being had). It took a year or two before I was able to afford the second P3. I still hold a grudge towards that particular computer shop, or I would, hadn't they gone out of biz. I did run a lot of SETI@home on that P3, it earned me my first two certificates :D
- MisterTea 7y agoI had a BP6 and remember 450 too (I may still have it tucked away somewhere). I think there was a 333 that could be pushed to 550 or something but not in SMP and I think it was slot 1 and not socket 370.
- senderista 7y agoYES. That was the first rig I ever built and I can still remember installing Slackware on it from a zillion floppies.
- layoric 7y ago+1 here who had the Abit BP6 dual celery setup. Had a pair of 400s running at close to 500 all the time. Both were lapped down to copper running FEP32 global win coolers. The wonders of Windows 2000 gaming machine with the GeForce 256 which was quickly followed by a GeForce 2 GTS upgrade as soon as it game out. Running quake on one CPU and no stutter MP3s on priority on the other. Good times.
- rconti 7y agooh man I had a Celeron 300A that ran at 464mhz for yeeeeears. Hit the 504(?) day uptime bug where the counter reset to 0.
- carterehsmith 7y ago464? I run mine at just 450 and I was so proud of it. Now, this 464 -> 450 explains (I hope so) why I lost so many online Quake 3 battles ;]
- rconti 7y agoyeah it was something like, you ran a lower clock speed but a higher multiplier? I've been out of the hardware game... well, ever since then. But that's my recollection. 450 vs 464 was the first place you were likely to see stability issues depending on your specific setup, but most were stable to at least 464.
- schwank 7y agoI still have 2 of these in my old hardware box. I used to run them at 4.5x100MHz on Abit BH6 single CPU mobo. Great way for me to bump performance as a poor CompSci student. And yeah, I ran SETI@home on them as well.
- trentnix 7y agoOverclocked to 450! Way more bang for your buck!