Thinking about upgrading....

Kaotic Soul · December 7th, 2002

As of now I have a Celeron 1.1 Ghz CPU and I was wondering if it would make that big of a diffrence if I went to a Pentium 3 processor... if I do get it, I wanna see the difference and not feel that I wasted my money...and also is there special jumper settings that I would I have to change in order to get it working.

Hanamichi · December 7th, 2002

Why's you go for a Pentium3? They are somewhat expensive. Getting an Athlon would be much better.

**liquid** · December 7th, 2002

I would go with either an AMD XP 2100+ (if money is tight) or Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (if you have a little more money)

Kaotic Soul · December 7th, 2002

I don't think anything over a pentium 3 will work.

**Prafull** · December 7th, 2002

I guess you dont need an upgrade right now.

Most games will run full speed on that processor anyway.

Ali · December 7th, 2002

Nooooo! don't get a pentium III, they are too expensive for the performance that they give, I think U are trying to save ur motherboard, well if U are then U are making a terible mistake. Get ur self an Athlon XP 1800+ or a 1.8 Ghz Pentium 4(which sucks

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Ali

December 7th, 2002

Saving your mobo really isn't worth it. Plenty of extremely cheap Athlon boards out there, your probably using Sdram so that can be ported over, Why get a pentium 3? so many better solutions.

**Shadow Lady** · December 8th, 2002

want a cheap and good enough solution? go for a "m810xp + AthlonXP 1600+" combo

Sampah · December 8th, 2002

Why suddenly go back to pentium III why don't use pentium 4 or Athlon instead of using Pentium III with low FSB.

**Demigod** · December 8th, 2002

He's not "going back" to anything, since he uses a P3 already. I think he's just looking for a CPU upgrade, without switching the motherboard.

Kaotic Soul: My advice would be to get a Celeron Tualatin 1.3 Ghz or the rare P3 Tualatin 1.4 Ghz if you can find it. The P3 Tualatin is a fantastic processor, as fast as the Athlon XP using SDRAM. They also have quite a bit of overclocking headroom so you can squeeze a lot of performance out of them. The Celeron isn't as fast as the P3 but can overclock well due to their low FSB. A Celeron 1.3 Ghz overclocked to 133 Mhz FSB would be 1.7 Ghz. You may need a better HSF and some minor voltage tweaks but from what I've heard it's attainable.

Sampah · December 8th, 2002

Depends on the motherboard also, a good motherboard is needed to ensure overclocking is success, without a good motherboard to overclocked means looking for trouble. If you are trying to overclocked it to 133 FSB, some motherboards cannot accept it, resulting in black screen when booting up the computer.

P. D. Ace · December 8th, 2002

I agree with most of the replies, get a new Socket A motherboard and an Athlon/ Duron...a Pentium III instead of a Celeron isn't worth the money...

December 7th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
Kaotic Soul Random Madness Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Pearl,Mississippi,USA Posts: 494	Thinking about upgrading.... As of now I have a Celeron 1.1 Ghz CPU and I was wondering if it would make that big of a diffrence if I went to a Pentium 3 processor... if I do get it, I wanna see the difference and not feel that I wasted my money...and also is there special jumper settings that I would I have to change in order to get it working. __________________ ---------------------------------- \| Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz \| Windows Vista \| 1.7 Gig of Ram \| Nvidia 8600 GT OC \| Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS - Gamer : Limited Edition \| Western Digital 250 Gig HD \| Lite-on DVD-RW/CD-RW \| HP Pavilion 19" LCD" --------------------------------

December 7th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
liquid Ebichu! Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida Posts: 2,089	I would go with either an AMD XP 2100+ (if money is tight) or Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (if you have a little more money) __________________ ...no sig for now

December 7th, 2002	#4 (permalink)
Kaotic Soul Random Madness Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Pearl,Mississippi,USA Posts: 494	I don't think anything over a pentium 3 will work. __________________ ---------------------------------- \| Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz \| Windows Vista \| 1.7 Gig of Ram \| Nvidia 8600 GT OC \| Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS - Gamer : Limited Edition \| Western Digital 250 Gig HD \| Lite-on DVD-RW/CD-RW \| HP Pavilion 19" LCD" --------------------------------

December 7th, 2002	#5 (permalink)
Prafull Administrator, PCSX2 tester Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: India Posts: 682	I guess you dont need an upgrade right now. Most games will run full speed on that processor anyway. __________________ E6750, Abit ip35E, XFX 8600GT 256 MB DDR3, Transcend 2GB DDR2 800 RAM

December 7th, 2002	#6 (permalink)
Ali CoLD InSiDE Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 2,613	Nooooo! don't get a pentium III, they are too expensive for the performance that they give, I think U are trying to save ur motherboard, well if U are then U are making a terible mistake. Get ur self an Athlon XP 1800+ or a 1.8 Ghz Pentium 4(which sucks) Ali __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2100 @ 1.75 Ghz Gigabyte GA-7VA.XP VIA K400 1.25GB PC3200 System Ram ChainTech GeForCe4 TI 4200 128MB Creative SB Live! 5.1 2x WD Caviar 120GBs and -Rom1 Maxtor 40GB LiteON 16x DVD-Rw WindowsXP Professional-SP2 & Mandrake Linux

December 7th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
Hanamichi Crotally Tazy Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Malaysia Posts: 4,573	Why's you go for a Pentium3? They are somewhat expensive. Getting an Athlon would be much better.

December 7th, 2002	#7 (permalink)
ChrisRay Guest Posts: n/a	Saving your mobo really isn't worth it. Plenty of extremely cheap Athlon boards out there, your probably using Sdram so that can be ported over, Why get a pentium 3? so many better solutions.

December 8th, 2002	#8 (permalink)
Shadow Lady Advanced Newbie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Bogotá... not that it matters... Posts: 4,888	want a cheap and good enough solution? go for a "m810xp + AthlonXP 1600+" combo __________________ Main Rig: Pentium Dual-Core E2160 @ 2.5GHz -- 7600GT @ 650/800MHz -- 2GB DDR2-667 4-4-4-12 -- Windows XP Pro SP3 Collecting dust: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ -- ATI Radeon 9500 Pro -- SB Live 5.1 Digital -- 2.5GB DDR 2-2-2-5 Ram -- Windows 2003 server r2 SP1

December 8th, 2002	#9 (permalink)
Sampah The Handsome Man Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Unlucky Place Posts: 881	Why suddenly go back to pentium III why don't use pentium 4 or Athlon instead of using Pentium III with low FSB. __________________ PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @1.8Ghz RAM: Kingstone 512MB PC3200 MOBO: ECS Nforce4 A939 VGA: Pixelview Geforce 6600GT (Golden Limited Edition) 128MB OS: WinXP pro Service pack 2

December 8th, 2002	#10 (permalink)
Demigod これはバタスです Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 5,811	He's not "going back" to anything, since he uses a P3 already. I think he's just looking for a CPU upgrade, without switching the motherboard. Kaotic Soul: My advice would be to get a Celeron Tualatin 1.3 Ghz or the rare P3 Tualatin 1.4 Ghz if you can find it. The P3 Tualatin is a fantastic processor, as fast as the Athlon XP using SDRAM. They also have quite a bit of overclocking headroom so you can squeeze a lot of performance out of them. The Celeron isn't as fast as the P3 but can overclock well due to their low FSB. A Celeron 1.3 Ghz overclocked to 133 Mhz FSB would be 1.7 Ghz. You may need a better HSF and some minor voltage tweaks but from what I've heard it's attainable. __________________ CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 2.66 Ghz (Yorkfield) Mobo: Intel DX48BT2 Memory: 2048 MB PC10600 DDR3 Videocard: PNY Geforce 9800 GX2 PCIe w/ 1024 MB GDDR3 Soundcard: On-board SigmaTel High Definition Audio Hard drive: 300 MB Maxtor & 1 TB Hitachi Optical drive: LG GGW-H20L (2x BD-R DL) OS: Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)

December 8th, 2002	#11 (permalink)
Sampah The Handsome Man Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Unlucky Place Posts: 881	Depends on the motherboard also, a good motherboard is needed to ensure overclocking is success, without a good motherboard to overclocked means looking for trouble. If you are trying to overclocked it to 133 FSB, some motherboards cannot accept it, resulting in black screen when booting up the computer. __________________ PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @1.8Ghz RAM: Kingstone 512MB PC3200 MOBO: ECS Nforce4 A939 VGA: Pixelview Geforce 6600GT (Golden Limited Edition) 128MB OS: WinXP pro Service pack 2

December 8th, 2002	#12 (permalink)
P. D. Ace Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 2	I agree with most of the replies, get a new Socket A motherboard and an Athlon/ Duron...a Pentium III instead of a Celeron isn't worth the money... __________________ Portuguese D. Ace [sig=303]

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