I have always had Celerons (3 of them now) and have had very good overlocking success with them. A 300A@450, 400@600, and currently a 566@933. The price of the processor with a speed that mathces the speed I have overclocked to before and currently, for example 933MHz, will usually be out of my reach financially and AMD's action by crippling overclocking, automatilly lost me as a potential customer and will not make me buy my desired speed processor at full price as opposed to what I think I can take a cheaper chip to overclock to based on reviews and such.
After reading so many positive results on AMD's Athlons and Durons, I was primed to go the AMD route but not anymore. I was thinking that AMD at least could have made more customers by allowing overclocking still so we would invest in socket A motherboards and therefore, kinda lock us up in an AMD upgrade path for future processors. But after this news, my Celeron still looks as appealing as the first day I laid my hands on a 400 overclocking to 600 and my current 566@933@1.75volts is still chugging along rock solidly. =)
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I have always had Celerons (3 of them now) and have had very good overlocking success with them. A 300A@450, 400@600, and currently a 566@933. The price of the processor with a speed that mathces the speed I have overclocked to before and currently, for example 933MHz, will usually be out of my reach financially and AMD's action by crippling overclocking, automatilly lost me as a potential customer and will not make me buy my desired speed processor at full price as opposed to what I think I can take a cheaper chip to overclock to based on reviews and such. After reading so many positive results on AMD's Athlons and Durons, I was primed to go the AMD route but not anymore. I was thinking that AMD at least could have made more customers by allowing overclocking still so we would invest in socket A motherboards and therefore, kinda lock us up in an AMD upgrade path for future processors. But after this news, my Celeron still looks as appealing as the first day I laid my hands on a 400 overclocking to 600 and my current 566@933@1.75volts is still chugging along rock solidly. =)