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iXBT Labs has posted a review on the Intel Celeron 566 (Coppermine128).



In fact, not so much time has passed since April 1998, when Intel announced their intention to divide the processor market into segments and introduced the first processor of the Celeron family, aimed at sub-$1000 PCs. However, during these two years Intel Celeron underwent a lot of radical modifications.

The first Celeron processors working at 266 and 300MHz were none other but the ordinary Pentium II CPUs without L2 cache. As a result, their performance in business applications could hardly be called satisfactory while in games Celerons without L2 cache suffered a total fiasco. The only remarkable thing about these CPUs was their extraordinary overclockability. Since they were deprived of external L2 cache microchips, which didn´t allow increasing the frequency of the ordinary Pentium II much higher than the official nominal, almost all Intel Celeron 266 processors got easily overclocked to 400MHz. However, these processors still failed to become very popular because of their relatively low performance, so that Intel had to think of a way-out.
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