A decent GPL computer???

Hello! I'm about to get a new computer sometime this month. I was wondering what would be a good system that would run GPL? I have a 200MHz, 64 meg ram, and a Screamin 3d video card right now. As you can tell, this is not even good to race at the Ring in full detail :-) I would like to race with 19 cars, some detail, and obviously a fast frame rate. A P 400 is looking good for me (budget wise). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!! Ed

The best deal is a celeron 400. It will overclock to 450mhz very easily and even at 400mhz it is just as fast as the p2 400.

I have a Celeron 300a running 450 MHz, 128 Mb ram, and a Voodoo2 card. That combination enables me to get 36 fps most of the time with all graphic options on . So anything similar or better should be fine for GPL. I changed the soundcard to a SB Live! value recently, and that improved sound quality and framerate compared to my old SB AWE32 card. -Jan Otto

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:43:07 -0400, "Brian Bowles" >:The best deal is a celeron 400. It will overclock to 450mhz very easily and >:even at 400mhz it is just as fast as the p2 400. How did you overclock a Celeron 400 to 450? My assumption would be you clocked it at 75mz (6 x 75) but I have read (over and over) this isn't a stable setup for video timing issues. Now that the Celery 433s are available I would say go with one of them, or go take a look at www.computernerds.com and their guaranteed overclocked setup combos. They had a 450mz overclocked bundle -- socket 370 Cel 300a, ABIT BH6, and one of their (Excellent) coolers for $225.00 US last time I looked... G. Patricks

I am overclocking the slot 1 400 to 450 with 6*75mhz. Absolutely no problems running on my AOpen AX6BC motherboard with 64mb of non-pc100 SDRAM. Im using a Diamond Stealth II S220 Rendition 4mb card. Ive only heard of problem with 83mhz with some PCI peripherals. I havent read anything about problems with the 75mhz bus setting. Again... my PC has been running at 450 since I bought the C400 2 months ago and has been running absolutely great. Now Im sure Ill go home and boot up my PC and the thing will fry or something ;) ROFL Scott PA-Scott G.T.S. Racing - http://home.earthlink.net/~sbhusted/GTS/gts.html

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> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:43:07 -0400, "Brian Bowles" > >:The best deal is a celeron 400. It will overclock to 450mhz very easily and > >:even at 400mhz it is just as fast as the p2 400. > How did you overclock a Celeron 400 to 450? My assumption would be you > clocked it at 75mz (6 x 75) but I have read (over and over) this isn't > a stable setup for video timing issues. Now that the Celery 433s are > available I would say go with one of them, or go take a look at > www.computernerds.com and their guaranteed overclocked setup combos. > They had a 450mz overclocked bundle -- socket 370 Cel 300a, ABIT BH6, > and one of their (Excellent) coolers for $225.00 US last time I > looked... > G. Patricks

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This is 100% consistent with my overclocking experiences on a P2-233. My periphials and RAM were flawless at 75MHz, but did not like 83MHz. Jim > I am overclocking the slot 1 400 to 450 with 6*75mhz. Absolutely no problems > running on my AOpen AX6BC motherboard with 64mb of non-pc100 SDRAM. Im using a > Diamond Stealth II S220 Rendition 4mb card. > Ive only heard of problem with 83mhz with some PCI peripherals. I havent read > anything about problems with the 75mhz bus setting.

Same here: Running a celeron 400 (ppga type) at 450/75mhz bus, just fine (apart from texture problems in gpl with a voodoo I, so glide 2x 2.53 is not an option). The machine runs 24/7 (Linux of course, looking for aliens, see www.setiathome.com ;-) so the cpu never gets a rest, and it has been fine for two weeks now. I'll go for 500MHz if it keeps up, but for now 450 is just fine. Uwe

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>>I am overclocking the slot 1 400 to 450 with 6*75mhz. Absolutely no >problems >>running on my AOpen AX6BC motherboard with 64mb of non-pc100 SDRAM. Im >using a >>Diamond Stealth II S220 Rendition 4mb card. >>Ive only heard of problem with 83mhz with some PCI peripherals. I havent >read >>anything about problems with the 75mhz bus setting. >>Again... my PC has been running at 450 since I bought the C400 2 months ago >and >>has been running absolutely great. >>Now Im sure Ill go home and boot up my PC and the thing will fry or >something ;) >>ROFL >>Scott >Same here: Running a celeron 400 (ppga type) at 450/75mhz bus, just >fine (apart from texture problems in gpl with a voodoo I, so glide 2x >2.53 is not an option). The machine runs 24/7 (Linux of course, >looking for aliens, see www.setiathome.com ;-) so the cpu never gets >a rest, and it has been fine for two weeks now. I'll go for 500MHz if >it keeps up, but for now 450 is just fine. >Uwe

I realize this has probably been asked before - I apologize... Has anyone had any luck overclocking an AMD K6-2? I have a 350mhz, and was considering trying to nudge it to go a bit faster... Thanks. Eldred __ Put your message in a modem, and throw it in the ***-sea... remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>Scott, > What voltage setting are you using. I tried to overclock my Celeron 400 >to 450 (6*75) using the BH6 MB and I recieved the message "CPU unworkable..." >and it reset to a low cpu and clock setting. >Thanks >Kendall Make sure you have the "halt on error" setting DISABLED in the BIOS. I had the same problem and it took me an hour to find out. cheers, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, Telemedia ////////////// Phone: +49 5241 80 10 66 Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 161 I \\\\\\\\\\ uwe.schuerkamp at telemedia.de 33311 Guetersloh \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ http://www.schuerkamp.de/ PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Kendall - There is a setting in the SoftCPU Setup called Hold on Error or something similar. You need to change this to No. Then try it. G. Patricks

Thanks Uwe and G. Patricks, I will try this tonight. Kendall

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> >Scott, > > What voltage setting are you using. I tried to overclock my Celeron 400 > >to 450 (6*75) using the BH6 MB and I recieved the message "CPU unworkable..." > >and it reset to a low cpu and clock setting. > >Thanks > >Kendall > Make sure you have the "halt on error" setting DISABLED in the BIOS. > I had the same problem and it took me an hour to find out. > cheers, > uwe > -- > Uwe Schuerkamp, Telemedia ////////////// Phone: +49 5241 80 10 66 > Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 161 I \\\\\\\\\\ uwe.schuerkamp at telemedia.de > 33311 Guetersloh \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ http://www.schuerkamp.de/ > PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Has anyone had any success at 6*83 for 500?

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> Kendall - > There is a setting in the SoftCPU Setup called Hold on Error or > something similar. You need to change this to No. Then try it. > >:Scott, > >: What voltage setting are you using. I tried to overclock my Celeron 400 > >:to 450 (6*75) using the BH6 MB and I recieved the message "CPU unworkable..." > >:and it reset to a low cpu and clock setting. > >:Thanks > >:Kendall > >: > G. Patricks

Kendall, I honestly dont know... whatever the default is on the Celeron 400. I did not change any voltage settings. I will have to take a look when I get home from work tonight. Scott PA-Scott -- Scott B. Husted ICQ# 4395450