2004/5/21 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:30340 Activity:insanely high | 2/21 I just upgraded a very old PIII to an AthlonXP. I used the cheapest
CPU and a rather cheapie MB with only 256 megs of RAM (I just wanted
to do something with the extra box and drives I had lying around.)
It seems to run a LOT faster than my laptops running a Celeron 1.5
gigahertz with 256 megs of RAM and seems comparable with a 3.2
gigahertz P4 laptop with 512 RAM I have on loan from the company I
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2000/7/6-7 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:18600 Activity:high | 7/6 Anyone knows of a good AT-form factor (not ATX) motherboard for
use with Pentium IIIs or Celerons? I want to upgrade an older
system (166MMX) and need to change the motherboard for a faster
CPU but my computer case is for AT type motherboards, but they
seem to be a dying breed. Where can I find a good one of those?
Asus P2B-B, I believe.
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1999/10/27-29 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16779 Activity:high | 10/27 I want to buy a LINUX box. I don't need (or want) windows.
Any suggestions on online companies which sell LINUX boxes?
I could just use gateway or dell, but they charge me for windows
and the last time my company ordered something from Dell it had
some hardware that wasn't well supported by LINUX. Thanks.
\_ Dell sells machines preloaded with Linux these days.
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1999/9/8 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:16482 Activity:moderate | 9/7 As a general rule, do mobile celerons outperform mobile pentium 2s?
\_ I wouldn't think so, since the general appeal of celerons seems
to be their ability to take massive overclocking, and in a
laptop you probably won't be able to fit the requisite cooling.
\_ mobile celery has 128k L2 on die, mobile p2 has 256k L2 on die,
and are pretty much the same else where, which do u think is
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1999/3/3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:15529 Activity:high | 3/3 What are the cons to overclocking say a Celeron 300 to 550 Mhz?
\_ Celerons are clock-locked at 4.5.
\_ Celeron 300As are clock-locked at 4.5.
450 ~= 4.5 x 66 bus
550 ~= 4.5 x 125 bus
PCI bus is 33 MHz, but the board only comes with 1/2 and 1/3
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1998/10/5-6 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:14734 Activity:insanely high | 10/5 overclocked my Celeron 300A to 450 MHz. ~jctwu/pub/mendocino.
\_ YouGo Girl
\_ Hey, and I put nitrous in my Yugo!
\_ the new Celerons are very well-engineered and -fab'd. My bet
is that Intel had to cripple them to 66 MHz bus speed so as
not to compete with the Pentium 2. -jctwu
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1998/9/28-29 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:14689 Activity:moderate | 9/28 got any tips on buying a decent PC [Piece o Crud] piece by
piece for around $1k total?
\_ If you're in L.A., go to the Pomona computer show and buy pieces
there. http://www.pricewatch.com for prices. Buy high-quality hardware
at a good price point based on what you need or expect to need.
Celeron 300A and AMD K6-2 300 are good, cheap processors. Don't
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