Do some research on overclocking before discarding that CPU. You may
very well be able to achieve some satisfying results on the relative
cheap just by overclocking that Celeron and installing a 3dfx Voodoo3
card. They should be coming down a bit once the Voodoo5s really hit
the street in large quantities. We may start finding Voodoo2s in
boxes of corn flakes at this rate. <g.
Regards,
Brett C. Cammack
That's Racing! Motorsports
Pompano Beach, FL
I'm going to be upgrading my PII 450 with using an Iwill Slocket II -
FC-PGA to Slot 1 converter card that has allows for voltage adjustment to
support a Coppermine PIII or Celeron 2 with my motherboard.
Given the price (about $25 for slocket), I'll be going for a Celeron 566,
running at 100 MHz front side bus, overclocked to 850 MHz. While it doesn't
match a PIII 850 in performance (probably more like a PIII 700), it's a
cheap upgrade that might be good enough for N4 (I hope).
"J Kopp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:39455a90$0$36234$[email hidden]...
> I am currently running a Celeron 300 (not overclocked), 64 mb ram(pc100),
> Creative Riva TNT (AGP), on a Abit BH6 Motherboard. I am wondering whatyou
> guys who run GPL feel would be a logical way to upgrade my system to beable
> to handle GPL or N4 (since I gather they will be similar as far as system
> requirements from what I've seen)
>
> The motherboard will support up to a PIII 600 Katmai (sp?). These CPU's...
>
> Any one care to list their opinions on what I should do - in what order?
>
> Would it be worthwhile to get a new motherboard that will supportCoppermine
> or Athalon.
