Celeron 600 or Duron 600 ????

Hi, i just want to buy a new proc. I have a 366 Cel, o/c in 550, rock stable. In tests, it performs better than Cel2 600. The question is: should I buy a Cel 600 and o/c it to 900, or buy a new mb with Duron600? How far do they go? Which is more overclockable? I want to get the powerfull sistem for my money. Please answer with your results in o/c.
And remember that my BX is cheaper than a new KT board. Please don't recommend PIII or Athlon/tbird - not the case

Go for the Celeron! It may be 15% slower BUT it's an easy and CHEAP upgrade compared to the Duron. Remember that if you go for the Duron you must not only get a new mainboard but if you are unlucky you might need new ram and a new powersupply. Then you will en up paying maybe 2 or 3 times more for a measly 15% premium in performance. Then a p3 850 would be a much better alternative. So the celeron 2 is definitely better value! I got myself one from overclockers uk. Runs fine at 950 mhz with a golden orb.

/patrik

Does your motherboard support o/c to 900?

Remember Celerons are stuck at 66 MHz FSB, while Durons run at 200 MHz and support much faster PC133.

From pricewatch.com:

Processors -
AMD Duron 600: (including their outrageous shipping)
$56
Intel Celeron 600
$81

Motherboards -
ASUS A7V (Duron, -highly- recommended! 5 PCI slots, 4x AGP, up to 1.5 GB of PC100 or PC133 SDRAM):
$141
ASUS P3V-133 (Celeron):
$110

That brings us to (assuming you need to upgrade your Celeron board) -

AMD - $197
Celeron - $191

That's only a $6 difference ... remember, the Duron outperforms a same-freq Celeron on just about everything (especially 3D games), and in fact the Duron gets close to full blown PIII performance on a lot of things, mainly thanks to its cache and 200 MHz FSB vs. Celeron's 66. Though, of course, if your board supports 600 MHz Celeron and good overclocking over that, you wouldn't need a new Celeron board.

So, until now, I know that Cel600 reaches 900 and more, while Duron600 reaches 900 at most, plus the necesity to change the mobo, eventually the memory and powersource. Why to change the memory? I have an 128Mb PC100