Celeron II 600 @ 1Ghz Review
How about a real world test? Quake 3 Arena has become a
defacto standard as a real-world benchmark. Some may scoff, but this engine can
really stress a CPU, and show you in a real world fashion at least one metric of
performance. I use the new 1.25y release, which includes newer Timedemo's
(older ones will not function with this release) hence performance numbers are
not comparable to any benchmarks run under v1.17. I include test numbers for a
P3-700 @ 1001mhz, for comparison purposes.
You can see several things from the graph. First and
foremost at the High Quality and Higher setting, the video card becomes the
limiting factor (Geforce2MX). At the FAST and NORMAL settings, you can see two
things clearly. The Celeron2 at the same rough overall clockrate as the P3, lags
it by roughly 20-30% in framerate. You can also see a very nice gain over the
stock clocked 600 Celeron2, roughly in the same range framerate wise, but as a
percentage of baseline performance, a significant nearly 50% increase in
framerate, solely due to the FSB rate. You of course realize that the P3 is
running at 31mhz higher FSB than the Celeron2@ 1008, and the 1008 is running
42mhz higher than stock, and these factors more than anything explain the graph.
Conclusions.
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One other thing to consider, is that there seems to be a
little bit more of a "hit-or-miss" factor with the CC0 steppings making such
high clocks. I know of a few people who have picked up CC0 stepping Celeron2's
and had them not even make 100mhz FSB reliably, much less 112. The high
multiplier is probably partly a factor here in the case of the Celeron2 CC0's.
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Cons:
Rating:
9.5/10
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