[ale] mb upgrade question

[Robert Hoffman]

Sorry for the repost. My motherboard is a BP6 not BH6.

--- Robert Hoffman <hoffmanrob at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Be careful about assuming you will be able to
> upgrade
> to an upper end PIII. Intel has been changing their
> specs again. Any PIII chip with an 'e' on the end of
> its name runs on a 133 Mhz bus instead of 100
> Mhz...this requires more expensive memory also. In
> addition, the new PIIIs will be going back to a
> socket
> design instead of slot1. AMD makes faster chips and
> changes their specs less often.
> 
> You may want to consider doing what I just did: I
> just
> upgraded to a dual processor system running two
> Celeron 466Mhz chips on an Abit BH6 motherboard. You
> can still use your 66Mhz memory and it screams. Took
> me about a minute and 15 sec to compile and install
> Star Office.
> 
> The motherboard was $145 and the chips came in a
> retail package for $114 each.
> 
> And the best part is that Quake3 is multithreaded.
> 
> Good Luck.
> 
> -Rob Hoffman
> "It is unacceptable to say that it is well-known
> that
> something is broken in Linux. If something is broken
> it must be fixed."
> 
> 
> --- Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> wrote:
> > I'm going to upgrade my mb/cpu and was wondering
> if
> > anyone has had any
> > experiences with the following hardware.  I'm
> > looking at the ASUS p3b-f
> > motherboard.  I've been told that you can buy an
> > adapter card to install
> > a Celeron 500 processor.  This board has a slot 1
> > and supports upper end
> > Piii.
> > 
> > Has anyone had any experiences with this board or
> > one of these adapter
> > cards under Linux?
> > 
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> > 
> > It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded
> > economy.
> > 	-- Larry Wall, creator of the programming
> language
> > Perl
> > 
> 
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