[ale] mb upgrade question

[Chris Kilroy]

You can get a Celeron 300a for dirt cheap and you can run it at 502 MHz if
you have a good cooling device (peltier for example).  Mine at home i run at
450MHz cause i'm not in a hurry to burn it out, but it benchmarks as good or
better than a regular PII450 on all counts.

My board is an ABit BH6 which allows you to change the chip settings in the
BIOS setup, a pleasant feature for overclocking.
Don't do it if you need very accurate floating point calculations though.

But my PIII-500 at work is noticibly faster.

Take it easy
chris

Wandered Inn wrote:

> Sorry for all the questions, but I've not gotten any response from Asus
> via email regarding their board and what it can actually support. (piii
> 450 and faster, what does faster include??).
>
> I appreciate all the responses regarding my mb upgrade.  I have been
> toggling back and forth between Intel and amd solutions.  I've heard at
> least two people who claim that they've seen stability problems with the
> upper end Athlon (700) processor.  One who said he was a tech support
> guy and the other guy said he saw a benchmark test done on tv, where the
> athlon crashed alot.  Anyone see this benchmark?
>
> Regarding the issue of how fast a processor the asus p3b-f will handle,
> the asus site indicates it will support 450 and faster piii.  I
> understand that Intel is going back to a socket vs. a slot, but I'm
> wondering whether they might have an adapter card such as they do for
> the 370.
>
> Anyone out there using an Athlon chip who would like to share their
> experiences?  For that matter, I'd like to hear from anyone who has had
> experiences with, say k6-3 and higher chips.
>
> It also appears that I could actually get a Piii 500 cheaper than an
> athlon 500, primarily because the athlon mb's are higher.  Anyone seen a
> good deal on athlon mb?  tomshardware recommended the asus k7m and the
> fic sd11.  Anyone had any experiences with these boards?
>
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