Editing Celeron (section)

==== {{Anchor|Covington}}Covington ====
[[Image:KL Intel Celeron Covington.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Intel Celeron Covington]]
Launched in April 1998, the first ''Covington'' Celeron was essentially a 266&nbsp;MHz Pentium II manufactured without any secondary cache at all.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Slater |first=Michael |title=Microprocessors have PCs humming |url=http://www.eetimes.com/myf98/ao_slater.html |magazine=[[EE Times]] |date=May 27, 1998 |access-date=July 30, 2007}}</ref> Covington also shared the 80523 product code of Deschutes. Although clocked at 266 or 300&nbsp;MHz (frequencies 33 or 66&nbsp;MHz higher than the desktop version of the Pentium w/MMX), the cacheless Celerons had trouble outcompeting the parts they were designed to replace.<ref name="S7toS1" /> Substantial numbers were sold on first release, largely on the strength of the Intel name, but the Celeron quickly achieved a poor reputation both in the trade press and among computer professionals.<ref>{{cite web |last=Zisman |first=Alex |title=Say No to Celeron |url=http://www.zisman.ca/Articles/1998/Celeron.html |work=Canadian Computer Wholesaler |date=June 1998 |access-date=July 30, 2007}}</ref> The initial market interest faded rapidly in the face of its poor performance, and with sales at a very low level, Intel felt obliged to develop a substantially faster replacement as soon as possible. Nevertheless, the first Celerons were quite popular among some overclockers, for their flexible [[overclocking|overclockability]] and reasonable price.<ref name="S7toS1" /> Covington was only manufactured in [[Slot 1]] SEPP format.