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Intel Celeron 466 Review

Intel Celeron 466 Review

Written by: Moto Racer®
Testing by: Rockford Fosgate®
Price: $180 - $210 ESP
Ship Date: April 26, 1999

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The Intel Celeron 466 is the newest and likely last of the 66 Mhz front side bus Celerons on the market. The Celeron we had for testing was a PPGA unit, made in Malaysia. It carried the numbers L912501Q-0222. Celeron 466s will not be available in a slot 1 design, so if you have a slot 1 motherboard like we did, you'll have to get a Socket 370 to Slot 1 converter like the Slot KET.

Ever since the release of the Celeron 300a, Intel has been hitting paydirt in the sub $1000 computer market, making rival AMD bleed red to the tune of over $128 million last quarter.

The 128K of full speed level 2 cache added to the Celeron 300A made all the difference in the world. No longer was the Celeron the laughing stock of the CPU world. Once people saw that a Celeron 300A can match the performance of Pentium II 300, people stood up and took notice.

Once they found out how overclockable the Celerons were, they started selling in record numbers. And why not? Here was a chip that was only 1/4 the price of a PII-450, yet when overclocked to 450Mhz, it matched it in nearly every way!

When people think Celeron, they think overclocking. I have never met anyone who has a Celeron CPU and runs it at rated speed. The Celerons seem made to be overclocked. However as these CPUs get faster and faster, it becomes increasingly more difficult to overclock them.

The Celeron 466 is no different from it's predecessors. It use's a 66Mhz front side bus speed, 128K of L2 cache running at the speed of the CPU and it's made on a .25 micron die size.

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