There is an old adage that bluntly states, "Nothing in life is free." Unfortunately, this is usually the case, but every so often a situation arises in which you can get much more than originally bargained for. In the computer industry, overclocking is one of the easiest ways to maximize spending and possibly turn an average buy into an outstanding bargain. Care for a piece of advice? Take advantage of these situations whenever possible, because they don't surface very often.

An informed overclocker has a general idea of how much performance can be squeezed from any processor even before testing it. Word of the Celeron 300 @ 450 and Celeron 366 @ 550MHz spread quickly when it was discovered that a high percentage of these CPUs would run reliably with a 100MHz front side bus. It's been a while since the overclocking community has seen such jewels, mainly because of the ever-increasing clock multipliers, but as yields improve and core quality increases, the possibility of another overclocking gem remains viable.