Celeron 950 rated as barely PIII500, when it shoul

[Alexis]

Hi all,
After reading THG article about Celeron overclocking I was very pleased to discover that my old BH6 Abit board (BX440 chipset) was able to overclock Celeron633 up to 950MHz after a BIOS update. So did I. And proceeded to benchmark the new system in Norton Utilities. My previous Celeron 450’s result was 145 points while the new one “climbed” only to 215 points, equalling in power a PIII500. I thought it would go at least to PIII700.
In another THG article I saw the 133 BX chipset even faster than the i815. Well, my config is based on SDRAM 100 (256Mo) but still I can’t explain those results. Does anybody can?

 

[NickM]

Sorry, I’m not the right guy to lit on synthetic benchmarks, I have the NortonSystemWorks but I’ve never taken seriously what their System Information Benchmark said to me. As for the <A HREF="http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/" target="_new"> SiSoft Sandra </A>, it wasn’t able to recognize the right speed for my AMD, showing and benchmarking it at least twice higher.
By the way, while more competent people are preparing the answer, could you provide what the Sandra shows for you? Probably, you’ll find a difference.
I prefer to do my comparisons based on some real software I work with.

And one more thing… My opinion on Celerons is different, unless it is a Tualatin.
Believe or not, my Pentium II o/c 333 MHz @ 133FSB is at least twice faster than any Celeron 466 –500 with the same clean install of Oracle we have in school. We checked, and our SysAdmin confirmed that.

 

[Crashman]

I don't know about Norton Utilities, but 3D-Mark 2001 scores the Celeron at 950 about the same as a PIII 700 on my systems.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[Alexis]

"Believe or not, my Pentium II o/c 333 MHz @ 133FSB is at least twice faster than any Celeron 466 –500"
I agree. My PII 300 is only 10 points under Celeron 450 (135/145).

 

[Alexis]

I can see only three issues here.
1) Newer chipset architecture
2) Higher memory speed (133 over 100)
3) Different Motherboard implementations.
But again does it explain THAT difference in results?

 

[Crashman]

It's all about the Cache. The Celeron only has half the cache, running with slower timings.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[lhgpoobaa]

yep.
celleron just sucks compared to the P3.


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