Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Intel launched the original "Covington" Celeron in April 1998, as a low-cost CPU compatible with their next-generation Slot 1 P6 platform.

The Celeron quickly earned a ... unique ... reputation for itself, and Intel was forced to about-face very publicly.

So how bad is the original Celeron? Was there anything good about it? What about overclocking?

All this and more in this deep dive into Celeron, first of its name.

Benchmarks: feel free to pause the video to examine the numbers more closely. There's a lot of data here.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:28 - The Creation of Covington
04:01 - Mendocino to the Rescue
06:26 - Celeron and Overclocking
07:33 - Benchmarking Setup
08:54 - DOSBench
09:14 - Quake & GLQuake
09:53 - Quake 2
10:44 - Quake 3
12:07 - Hidden & Dangerous
13:58 - PowerPoint WordArt
14:24 - Adobe Reader 5 - World Map PDF
14:56 - Conclusion and Build Recommendations in August 2021