Intel Celeron 667 'B'

When AMD introduced a 200MHz Front Side Bus on their Duron and Athlon chips, Intel fell behind for the first time in the processor wars with the Pentium iii with a 133MHz FSB.

As if this wasn't bad enough, Intel got it completely wrong with the Celeron by leaving it with a pitiful FSB of only 66MHz.

Despite its relatively low power consumption there's not much positive to say about this slug of a Celeron 667MHz with 128KB of Level 2 cache.

Terrible at games, even desktop apps of the day positively crawled. It wouldn't overclock by much either. Unbelievably, it was also more expensive than the 650MHz Duron which completely kicked its ass. Why anyone stayed with Intel at the time is anyone's guess.

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