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Intel Celeron 300A @473MHz

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(2/7/1999) Semua processor saya telah habis! Homepage ini sementara akan saya biarkan untuk sekedar informasi dan nantinya akan saya hapus. Saya tidak lagi menjual computer hardware. Semua data tentang saya sudah dihapus (nama, contact number, dan lain-lain).

Kepada para customer saya; support dan garansi akan tetap diberikan (anda seharusnya tahu bagaimana menghubungi saya). Bahkan saya masih melayani mereka untuk pembelian computer hardware dengan harga yang sangat murah. Juga kalau masih dibutuhkan, saya akan memberikan info mengenai option overclocking yang terbaik (kestabilan, berapa persen kenaikan kecepatan yang didapat dibandingkan dengan harga processor, dan lain-lain). Pada saat ini Pentium III 450MHz bisa dioverclock sampai 600MHz dengan stabil.

NEW! (24/6/99) Sisoft Sandra Ver 99.6.5.10. Download now!

(20/4/99) Dual Celeron @450MHz Success (Very Kewl)!

Hallo, saya seseorang yang hobby computer. Dalam kesempatan ini saya ingin membuka sebuah rahasia yang Intel tidak mau anda tahu! Apa yang akan anda baca bukan hanya karangan saya saja semata, tetapi adalah sebuah kenyataan (didukung oleh data hasil Benchmark test yang dilakukan oleh seorang pakar computer hardware asal Jerman).

Tahukah anda bahwa processor Intel Celeron 300A yang dioverclock, benar-benar mampu jalan 100% stabil di 450MHz mengalahkan processor Intel Pentium II 450MHz yang asli?

Untuk membuktikan/mengetest kecepatannya anda bisa menggunakan program-program benchmark terkenal seperti Sisoft Sandra 99, Winbench99, Wintune 98, dan lain-lain. Sudah ribuan orang melakukan overclocking Celeron 300A dan segera saja Intel menghentikan produksi processor jenis ini (Bad news for Celeron fans). Kebetulan saya masih mempunyai sedikit stock Original Celeron 300A Slot1 retail (128 Kb On-Die Full Speed 2nd Level Cache). Semua overclocked processor telah saya test secara intensive dan dijamin jalan sangat stabil @450MHz (anda harus mengikuti configurasi yang saya anjurkan).

Ini bukan bohong. Kalau anda bisa membuktikan Celeron @450MHz saya sampai kalah kecepatannya (memakai program: Sisoft Sandra, Wintune98 dan 3DSMAX rendering process) dan kestabilannya (memakai program apa saja) dengan Pentium II 450MHz, silahkan bawa pulang processor saya; GRATIS!

Karena banyak sekali orang yang menanyakan kestabilan dari processor yang di overclocking, maka saya akan jelaskan bagaimana saya mengetest sebuah processor.
1. Harus bisa booting Windows dengan bersih.
2. Harus bisa menjalankan basic programs seperti MS Office, Internet Explorer dan lain-lain dengan mulus.
3. Harus bisa menjalankan program-program graphic seperti Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Director, 3DSMAX dan lain-lain dengan mulus.
4. Harus bisa menjalankan program-program game 3D seperti Quake II, Final Fantasy 7, Half Life, FIFA99 dan lain-lain dengan mulus.
5. Menjalankan/membuka program-program tersebut di atas secara bersamaan dengan mulus.
6. Menjalankan sebuah program yang menggunakan 100% CPU utilization selama 24 jam dengan casing tertutup untuk memastikan processornya kuat dipakai non-stop (saya memakai program Prime95, sebuah program kalkulasi matematika).

Bagi yang mempunyai program-program 3D, anda bisa membandingkan rendering time system anda di sini.

Overclocking tidak hanya dengan secara mudah menaikkan bus speed saja, ada beberapa faktor yang harus dipertimbangkan untuk mendapatkan system yang stabil. Saya sendiri telah memulai overclocking sejak jaman Pentium Classic (Pentium 133 @150MHz dan Pentium 166 @225MHz). Kedua system tersebut sampai sekarang masih jalan sangat stabil. Anda tidak perlu tergesa-gesa untuk mengambil keputusan. Cobalah explore homepage saya ini dan ikuti dan pelajari semua links yang ada. Semua links/data yang ada berasal dari para pakar computer hardware. Sudah puluhan Celeron 450MHz system yang saya jual dan sampai sekarang saya belum pernah menerima satu complain dari salah satu customer saya; itu menjadi sebuah kebanggaan tersendiri bagi saya.

happy overclocking!

-CHS-

Benchmark Result
Dibawah adalah links kebeberapa sites yang telah melakukan test antara Celeron dan Pentium II beserta hasilnya. Yang mengetest adalah seorang pakar computer hardware bernama Thomas Pabst, seorang Dokter asal Jerman yang hobby computer hardware.

Office Performance Windows 98: Business Winstone 98 (Windows 98)
http://www.tomshardware.com/releases/98q3/980824/index1.html
Celeron 450MHz: 31.7   Pentium II 450MHz: 31.4

3D Gaming Performance: Quake 2 massive1.dm2 (fps)
http://www.tomshardware.com/releases/98q3/980824/index2.html
Celeron 450MHz: 70   Pentium II 450MHz: 69

FPU Performance – 3D Rendering Power: 3D Studio Max Rendertime
http://www.tomshardware.com/releases/98q3/980824/index3.html
Celeron 450MHz: 43.9   Pentium II 450MHz: 42.9

Business Winstone 98 Windows NT: Business Winstone 98 (Windows NT 4)
http://www.tomshardware.com/releases/98q3/980824/index4.html
Celeron 450MHz: 41.5   Pentium II 450MHz: 41.3

Highend Winstone 98 Windows NT 4
http://www.tomshardware.com/releases/98q3/980824/index5.html
Celeron 450MHz: 46 Pentium II 450MHz: 46.3

PC Magazine Labs Benchmark Tests Result (CPUmark 99)
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/bench/cpumark99.html
My Celeron 450MHz: 36.2 Pentium II 450MHz: 33.5

Wintune98 average CPU result - Bandingkan hasil Wintune98 anda disini
http://wintune.winmag.com/AvgCPUResults.asp

Wintune98 Express Tests
http://wintune.winmag.com/ExpressStart.asp

Testing your PC using Wintune98 online! - Anda harus connect ke Internet!
http://wintune.winmag.com/runtests.asp

Benchmark / Utility Programs
Dibawah ini saya akan menunjukkan program-program terkenal yang dipakai untuk mem-benchmark computer/system.

Sisoft Sandra Ver 99.6.5.10 (run the CPU Benchmark)
SiSoft Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Download now!

WinBench99 Ver 1.1 (www.zdbop.com)
By far the most popular benchmarking software for Windows-based PCs are those released by Ziff-Davis. They've named themselves the Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation, or ZDBOp for short, and are the world's largest independent developer of benchmark software. Many of you are probably already familiar with their Winbench, Winstone and 3DWinbench utilities.

Wintune98 Ver 1.0.38
After the test you can upload your result afterward and compare it. Just open wt98.html on your windows Desktop and click Upload button. Download now!

Norton System Information (not recommended)
I don't recommend this benchmark program. Norton SI is very L2 cache intensive. The Celeron, with 128K of L2 will give results that are not as promising. To get an accurate view of your new screamer, download SiSoft Sandra or Wintune 98 and benchmark with those programs.

My Celeron 464MHz benchmark test result
System configuration:
Celeron @464MHz, Mainboard Abit BX6-2, 128MB SDRAM PC100, VGA AGP Asus V3400 TNT 16MB Driver Rev. 1.02.02, HDD Seagate 6.5 GB, 16 Bit Yamaha sound card, Asus 36X CDROM drive, Video mode 1024x768@16-bits/pixel.

MIPS = Million Instructions Per Second - MFLOPS = Million Floating Point Operations Per Second

Sisoft Sandra Ver 99.6.5.10 (CPU Benchmark) - Perbandingan dengan Pentium III 500MHz.
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Wintune98 Ver 1.0.38 offline test result (go 3 times) - 464MHz

CPU (1) Intel Celeron A@464 MHz
Video Board Intel740 Win9x PC3.2W 3.1.2407-981207
Video Mode 1024x768@16bits/pixel
RAM 64 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.1998

 

Area Tested Value
CPU Integer 1357.021 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 541.2886 MFLOPS

What is the Dhrystone benchmark?
The original Dhrystone benchmark is still widely used to measure CPU performance in industry under various versions/variants. The benchmark is designed to contain a representative sample of types of operations, mostly numerical, used by applications. Unfortunately this does not always represent a true real-life performance, but is useful to compare the speed of various CPUs.
The Dhrystone benchmark used here is a 32-bit variant of the original one which runs under UNIX. The result is determined by measuring the time it takes to perform some sequences of instructions. Due to various changes, the result is not directly comparable with other Dhrystone benchmarks. However the MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) should be the same for the same system (+5-10% variation) between benchmarks.

What is the Whetstone benchmark?
The Whetstone benchmark is widely used in the computer industry as a measure of FPU or Co-Processor performance. Floating-point arithmetic is most significant in programs that require a Co-Processor. These are mostly scientific, engineering, statistical and computer-aided design programs.
The Whetstone benchmark used here is a 32-bit variant of the original one which runs under UNIX. The result is determined by measuring the time it takes to perform some sequences of floating-point instructions. Due to various changes, the result is not directly comparable with other Whetstone benchmarks. However the MFLOPS (Million FLoating OPerations per Second) should be the same for the same system (+5-10% variation) between benchmarks.


Kesimpulan
Semua hasil test benchmark (Sisoft Sandra 99, Winbench99, Business Winstone 98, Quake 2 massive1.dm2 dan 3DStudio Max Rendertime) jelas menunjukan bahwa Celeron 450MHz masih sedikit lebih cepat dari pada original Pentium II 450MHz. Dan yang terpenting adalah system ini jalan sangat stabil.

Tested programs/applications
Untuk memastikan bahwa system overclock ini benar-benar stabil, saya telah menjalankan program-program seperti HalfLife Toaster demo, Quake demo; non stop selama 24 jam untuk memastikan system yang benar-benar stabil.

Untuk itu saya telah menginstall dan menjalankan programs/games sebagai berikut:

MS Windows 98, MS Windows 98 (LAN), MS NT 4 Server (LAN), Novell LAN, MS Office 97 Professional, MS Internet Explorer 4.0, 3DSMAX 2.5, Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Adobe Premiere 5.0, Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0, Macromedia Freehand 8.0, Macromedia Authorware 4.03, Macromedia Director 6.5, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash 3.0, PeachTree Accounting 6.0, ACDSee32 ver 2.3, Xing Mpeg 3.30, Jet Audio 3.12, Eudora Pro 4.1, CleanSweep 4.0, Norton Utilities 3.0, Winfax Pro 9.0, DirectX 6.0, HalfLife, Quake2.

Something you should read
Di bawah ini saya juga sediakan beberapa informasi yang bisa anda baca untuk menambah pengetahuan anda.

128 Kb On-Die Full Speed 2nd Level Cache Makes the Difference (Tom's Hardware Guide)
The new Celeron is indeed a whole lot different to its predecessor. The Celeron 300 A and the Celeron 333 comes now with an internal on-die 2nd level cache of 128 kB, which is even running at CPU clock frequency and thus faster than the 2nd level cache of a Pentium II running at only half the CPU clock frequency. This accelerates the new Celerons to a speed that’s virtually identical to the speed of Pentium II CPUs at the same clock speed. Office applications, 3D games and even 3D rendering programs do hardly make any difference between 512 kB 2nd level cache running at half the CPU clock or 128 kB 2nd level cache running at full CPU clock. There may be some software that takes particular advantage of the larger L2 cache of the Pentium II but at the same time there may be software that takes advantage of the faster L2 cache of the new Celerons.

Bahasa Indonesia
Meskipun L2 cache Celeron hanya 128KB sedangkan L2 cache Pentium II adalah 512KB, L2 cache Celeron jalan full clock speed (dalam hal ini 450MHz) sedangkan L2 cache Pentium II hanya jalan setengah clock speed (dalam hal ini 225MHz). MS Office applikasi, 3D games bahkan 3D rendering programs sangat sedikit perbedaan kecepatannya antara jalan L2 cache 128KB dengan full CPU clock atau jalan 512KB jalan setengah dari CPU clock. Mungkin ada beberapa software yang lebih diuntungkan dengan adanya L2 cache yang lebih besar dari Pentium II tetapi ada pula software yang menarik keuntungan dengan lebih cepatnya L2 cache dari Celeron.


Why is the Celeron so overclockable? (John Bogush)
As you may know, a given chip design is used for CPU's of many different speeds.  The P2 and Celeron designs are named after Western US counties: Deschutes, Klamath and Mendocino.  More on this later.
In theory, a CPU is tested first at it's maximum speed. The ones that pass the testing process at this speed are marked as such and sold as top-of-the-line CPU's. Those that fail at the fastest speed are tested at successively lower and lower speeds until they run reliably. These slower cores are then marked with the speed at which they passed the testing process and sold as slower processors. At least, that's the theory. No one really knows how Intel decides which cores get marked for a given speed. Several other factors, such as customer demand and production quality, affect how many processors of each speed are produced.
A CPU of any given speed can usually be made to run somewhat faster if one is willing to play around with the motherboard settings. This is the overclocker's bread and butter. Now, through a convenient turn of events, Intel has produced a CPU with an unusually high capacity for overclocking.
Intel has long controlled the high-end CPU market while it's competitors, Cyrix and AMD were gaining market share in the low- and mid-price range because of the popularity of lower priced PC's. Intel finally realized what was happening and wanted to recover the low ground while also keeping the high end market (can you say "total market domination"?).  When Intel designed the CPU core for their newest line of processors, the P2, they changed the way the CPU was mounted. All P2's are mounted on a circuit board, called an SECC (Single Edge Contact Cartridge), that plugs into a special, patented CPU slot (Slot 1) similar to a PCI slot. [Intel calls the Celeron packaging a SEPP (Single Edge Processor Package) but it's still compatible with the Slot 1 connector, go figure.] AMD and Cyrix do not have a Slot 1 CPU, so if you want high-end speed, you need to buy an Intel processor. Thus the high-end market is preserved for Intel.   Now, Intel needed a cheap Slot 1 CPU to corner the low-cost PC market.
Enter the Celeron line. To reduce production costs, Intel left out the expensive Level 2 cache.  Also, to eliminate design costs, the original Celerons (C266 and C300) used the same CPU core as the new P2 350-450 mHz (code name Deschutes).  [Remember, design costs account for a huge percentage of the total cost of a CPU.  Once in production, it costs exactly the same to manufacture a core destined for use as a 266 mHz processor as it does to use that same core in a 450 mHz processor.]  Many media pundits immediately dubbed the Celeron a backward-stepping piece of crap because of the lack of the L2 cache.  Later, perhaps due to the poor reviews from hardware critics, Intel released the Celeron 300A and 333 with 128 Kb of built-in cache. Again, they used basically the same core design with some modifications to incorporate the on-die cache. The C300A and the C333 modified Deschutes core carries the code name Mendocino.
Here's where it gets interesting. The fastest P2 CPU's (350 to 450) require a relatively new type of Slot 1 motherboard with the BX chipset.  The BX motherboard runs at a bus speed of 100 mHz.  They can also run at 66 mHz bus which allows them to accept slower P2 CPU's (233, 266, 300 and 333) and Celerons. The Celerons are supposed to be used on the earlier EX and LX generation of Slot 1 motherboards which run at 66 mHz only.  Since the Celerons have the exact same core as the new architecture P2 CPU's,  there's nothing to stop you from setting the bus to 100 mHz and running a Celeron at 400 or 450 mHz.
People started buying BX motherboards and Celerons and overclocking the hell out of them by setting the bus speed to 100 mHz. A chip meant to run at 266 running at 400 mHz and more was unheard of previously.  It's all because Intel is trying to capture the low-cost CPU market without the R & D costs of a new chip.   It's really a marketing stroke of genius when you think about it. Produce one type of CPU.  Take the best ones, add 512 kb of fast, expensive cache and sell it as the top-of-the-line CPU for $700+.   Take the rejects, leave off the expensive L2 cache and sell them as cheap Celerons.  Except they're too smart for their own britches.  The production yield of 450 mHz cores is too good and the "rejects" are too few and far between.  Because they want to flood the market with $100 CPU's, they have to mark them as 266 to 333 mHz Celerons and sell them cheap anyway.  It doesn't cost them any more since both chips came off the same production line. Because the P2-450 market is relatively small compared to the low- and mid priced market, the demand is greater for Celerons.

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