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Yesterday Sharkyextreme brought readers the results of our testing and evaluation of the Socket370 version of the new Celeron 366 CPU. Today we're putting the Slot-1 version of the very same chip under the microscope, and examining its merits both at its stock 366MHz speed, and at a sky-high overclocked speed of 550MHz.

550MHz sounds like a tremendous amount of horsepower, and frankly it is. The improvement in performance even over a stock Intel P2-450 CPU is amazing, much less the gap between the chip's out of the box 366MHz level of speed.

Thankfully, as we reported previously, neither the S370 nor the Slot-1 versions of the new Celeron 366 and 400 CPUs are FSB speed locked. The standard Intel fixed clock multiplier setting is present in the new chips, but the front side bus rate can be manipulated at will.

For today's article we utilized the popular Abit BH6 440BX mainboard complete with its Soft Menu II adjustable BIOS routine for the manipulation of the CPU's variables. The three Slot-1 Celeron 366 CPUs we tested for this article are of the retail boxed variety, SL37Q is the product code for these particular Malaysian examples.