Reply 20 of 24, by Anonymous Coward
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smtkr wrote on 2022-06-12, 18:41:Anonymous Coward wrote on 2022-06-12, 13:42:I never bothered with the Celeron 300A. All the jerks who worked in the shops would overclock the CPUs to find out which ones were good, and keep the best ones for themselves (leaving the crap for suckers like me to buy). I also never had good luck overclocking in general. I had a friend who bought one though, and his didn't do 450 reliably.
Ha. That's why I was so hell-bent on getting the SL32A version. Probably just an old wives tale, but back in the day, people said the retail versions got better/cherry-picked silicon vs. the tray versions. It's kind of silly to think they would do that on the budget Celeron line, but it's always been in the back of my mind.
I heard something similar. But, the version I heard was that the ones manufactured in the Malaysian plant had better yields...and supposedly all of the retail versions were malay, while only a handful of the OEMs were.
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