Intel Socket-370 Celeron 366

Just as we've already been informed of from the release of the first Celeron 300A, the business application performance of the Celeron 366A is excellent for the price, giving even Intel's own Pentium II a run for it's money. Clock for clock, even the new Celeron 366 is slower than AMD's to-be-released K6-3 processor, so Super7 users may want to hold out on an upgrade until after the K6-3 comes out in about a month or so.

Intel Celeron 300A owners that are reliably running at 450MHz shouldn't even think of upgrading, especially with the deal you all got on your processors. The 366 doesn't offer enough improvement to be worth it, even if the processor made it up to 550MHz, the only time it would be a viable alternative for a current 300A user would be if they decided to use a Socket-370 to Slot-1 adapter, there is no point in buying a new motherboard if you already have a Slot-1 board and are interested in a Socket-370 processor.

The disk performance of the Celeron 366 is what you can expect considering the test system wasn't running at the 100MHz FSB that the rest of the systems were (for the most part). While 550MHz was unachievable on the AnandTech test system, there's no point in ruling out the option until more samples are out on the market. Once again, AnandTech tested a retail version of the Celeron 366.