Intel Celeron 600 "Coppermine128"

AnandTech CPU Rating

Performance

The Celeron performs in line with what we would expect from a 600MHz Celeron, the performance improvement over the Celeron 533 isn't incredible although the SSE instructions do give it somewhat of a boost.

The 66MHz FSB/memory bus is still a major limitation that keeps it from outperforming even the first generation Pentium IIIs.

Features

With SSE support and a full speed on-die L2 cache, the Celeron is definitely feature friendly.

Price

The Celeron has always been a cost effective solution, and considering that the 600MHz part can be had for around $150, the value of the CPU has definitely not gone down.

Availability

We can only hope that these new Celerons should be more available than their higher clock speed Pentium III counterparts.

Considering that these chips are in fact lower clock speed parts, they shouldn't be too difficult to find, the main problem with finding Intel chips online is that the higher clock speed parts (733MHz+) are difficult to find because the larger OEMs are gobbling most of them up.

In the case of the Celeron, there shouldn't be much to worry about in terms of availability.