Celeronda

Celeronda is my last PC that I still have to resurrect once in awhile when things go bad on Amanda. Celeronda runs a Celeron 366 Intel CPU and a bunch of other standard PC hardware. I built it a few years back to replace my ageing PII.

I didn't want to splash out too much coz I really don't play many games or do any significant graphics work to warrant a decent machine, so the bottom-end at the time Celeron-366 was a good cheap choice. Slid it into a BX chipsetted m/b on a slot370 to slot1 converting daughter board (which worked without hitch)

ABit BH6 motherboard

The A Bit BH 6 was in the first wave of BX motherboards to hit the market, Intel 440BX chip-set supporting Pentium II's in a Slot-1 interface, was popular with Over-clockers running Celerons in an adapter daughter-board.

Has 5 PCI slots which were the emerging standard, 1 AGP, 2 ISA which I needed to run old network and video cards and the like. Has 3 168pin DIMM Slots (EDO/SDRAM) and variable FSB speed from 66 to 133MHz. Got lots of positive reviews at the time and has rocked on without fault since the day I installed it.

CPU: Intel Celeron 366

Considering the performance of the archaic machine I was replacing at the time I built this one the Celeron was relatively quick. The ABit m/b has a Slot1 interface and the Celeron I bought had a Socket-370 pin layout so I bought a daughter-board to mount it on.

The Celeron has a Mendocino core, 66MHz bus frequency, 128k L2 cache, and only puts out around 21W of heat so didn't need any special cooling requirements.

Retirement?

I ran Celerdona for years longer than I should have, even for a hardware luddite like myself. The reason I built my current Amanda was really so I could get enough grunt to play the latest version of MS FlightSimulator. There was no decent upgrade path for slot-1 CPUs so I built the new machine.

Now its running Ubuntu and is destined to be donated so some lucky family member or another as a internet use box.

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