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by **PETE** » Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:00:00

Say I had decided to upgrade my pc and I will be playing mainly GPL and
F1rs/MGP.A P450 is in my price range. So is a Voodoo2. Question is , do I
go with that , or should I go for the Celeron 300 (I think ) and the
Thriller 8mb card. Please remember some of us are not clued up on these
issues . In fact I had'nt heard of the Celeron 'till I read about it on
this newsgroup (especially the overclocking bit). I'd really appreciate the
advice before shelling out my well earnt money!
Thanks in advance, Pete.

by **MTB60** » Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:00:00

after a lot of research i just ordered an abit bx6 motherboard and a celeron
300A and 128meg pc100 ram. i already have the 8 meg thriller.
i needed a new mb because i currently have a 200mmx which is a socket7 board
and pII's from 300 to 450 including the celeron are a slot1. the celeron 300A (
make sure you get the A which has a cache the plain 300 doesn't) will easily
overclock to 450 with some cooling.

by **Jeff Mal** » Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:00:00

DO GET THE PII450 AND NOT THE CELERON 300
the celeron does not have the on chip cache which is a must for games.
The PII450 and a BX motherboard has a 100mhz bus the 300 has only a 66mhz bus
unless you overclock it.

Everthing you ever wanted to know about hardware overclocking etc is at
http://www.tomshardware.com/

> Say I had decided to upgrade my pc and I will be playing mainly GPL and
> F1rs/MGP.A P450 is in my price range. So is a Voodoo2. Question is , do I
> go with that , or should I go for the Celeron 300 (I think ) and the
> Thriller 8mb card. Please remember some of us are not clued up on these
> issues . In fact I had'nt heard of the Celeron 'till I read about it on
> this newsgroup (especially the overclocking bit). I'd really appreciate the
> advice before shelling out my well earnt money!
> Thanks in advance, Pete.

by **Jan Otto Ruu** » Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:00:00

>DO GET THE PII450 AND NOT THE CELERON 300
>the celeron does not have the on chip cache which is a must for games.
>The PII450 and a BX motherboard has a 100mhz bus the 300 has only a 66mhz
bus
>unless you overclock it.

>Everthing you ever wanted to know about hardware overclocking etc is at
>http://www.tomshardware.com/

Celeron 266 and Celeron 300 has no L2 cache.
Celeron 300A and Celeron 333 HAS L2 CACHE. You might be able to overclock
the 300a to 450 MHz with a BX board in which case it has performance similar
to PII 450.

-Jan Otto

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