Celeron overclocking mania

This month's C'T is out, with a review of the Celeron 366 and 400 which exist in a socket 370 variety. Intel first moved to slots because the L2 of the Pentium Pro was expensive: it took up Fab capacity for low margin parts (SRAM). Cartridges could use others' SRAM. But now, the trend with smaller processes, is to put the L2 on the die, making cartriges expensive. Hopefully this won't mean the end of the SMP-Celeron days. Intel is also expected to add a circuit which prevents over-clocking in its chips... a shame since Danish company Asetek, which makes CPU cooling equipent, claims they can overclock Celerons to 600Mhz, while running at 550Mhz has been independently verified in Ohio.

Comments

Bah!

[Special J]

Intel isn't locking down overclocking to prevent counterfeits; That's just a convenient side-effect. They just want to stop over-clockers.

Hmmm...If I decide to soup up the motor in my car, Dodge doesn't seem to object (besides screwing my warranty).