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Some while back, I bought a "bare bones" Celeron system box at a bargain price. Adequate for wordprocessing, email and basic office tasks, but not exactly "sporty" in its handling: press the button, and make a cup of tea while you wait for the system to respond. I checked the motherboard maker's website, and found that it could handle CPU's up to 1,000Mhz, or (after flashing the BIOS) up to 1233Mhz. I watched prices on Ebay for a few days... then bid on a couple of 1000Mhz P3's (A friend had also bought a near-identical system box) By buying two, we saved on postage. A flat-bladed screw driver was used to unclip the heatsink, a flick of the lever on the ZIF socket, and out came the Celeron chip, in went the P3. A couple of microswitches on the motherboard needed changing at the same time; back when the heatsink, I powered up the system and... it was like discovering that I'd been driving with the handbrake on. Incomparably better performance: not only in terms of raw "clock cycles" (1,000Mhz instead of 666) but also double the size of on-chip cache. Early Celerons - released to compete with AMD's new "Duron" chips, cut the price by cutting the amount of (expensive) on-chip cache. The consensus at the time was that Intel had cut the cache by too much and the price by not enough... AMD slowly gained market dominance. The difference in "oomph" between a Celeron and a P3 is quite marked. If you've got a tired Celeron system, this offers an amazingly cheap way to get a substantial increase in performance - but before making any purchases, CHECK WITHE THE MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURERS website; not all P3 chips are compatible with all boards!Read full review
this item is a quality item that is serving me well. i`m using this in my back-up system and it comes in handy if my main system fails. its an all around good item.
