News Celeron 335D, the disguised Willamette

The Inq waxes lyrical over past Celereon's, whilst giving a run down on Chipzilla's latest stalk of celery:

Celerons form the basis of Intel's entry-level platform which includes integrated/value motherboards as well. The Celeron 335D is the fastest - until the Celeron 340D - 2.93GHz - becomes mainstream - of the newer bunch of Celerons which are set to rule the Intel world. Launched back in June this year.

One thing first to set the record straight. Some have viewed Celerons since their launch as a bad investment. This is not necessarily true. I was a Celeron user and managed to overclock the CPU - which was a Celeron 300a to 450MHz by changing jumpers to 100MHz on my PC Chips M748LMRT dual socket board. As Vince Freeman from Sharkyextreme puts it, "The Intel Celeron Processors have been permanently etched into our memories as legends of the overclocking world". And many geeks still carry fond memories of Abit's BP6 motherboard which was the first true mainstream dual processor.

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