Hi, folks:
Since I was planning to replace a bad motherboard, I shopped
for one. Giving in to the lure, I decided to purchase a pair of the
by-now famed Celeron 300A's, two ball-bearing fans, plus two MS-6905
`slotkets' (S370-to-Slot1 converters) along with the MS 6120N, (which
I have been using in another machine, doing well).
About two hours worth of work with screwdrivers or so later, I
have a 450MHz system. At least, that is what greeted me on bootup. I
can boot into Linux and actually do compiles and memory tests, without
any apparent problem. Compile time actually went down to about 2 mins
and a half for kernel 2.2.10. Does this mean Nirvana?
On looking things over, I decide that I don't really think so.
Celerons, overclocked, may be the cats' whiskers to gamers, but paired
up and used for Linux, there seems to be just too much cache trashing,
and response time really is a lot worse `to the touch'.
Note-- at bootup, I noticed how sluggish response was; Using a
pair of PP200/512s and the memory-interleaved P6DOF (about equivalent
to using a LX dual PII/233 with old SDRAM timings, or so I am told), I
got very accustomed to quick response times way back. The small size
of the cache apparently really hurts. I had originally planned to put
the older PII/333's that I inherited into a toy box. Now I will stay
with them, and put the Celerons into the toy box instead.
This is my first attempt to do a `real' overclock. I'm almost
convinced that overclocked Celerons really isn't all that hot now and
there *IS* a reason to making larger caches, even slower ones.
Any comments? Anyone with different experiences?
Regards!
B.Y.
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