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In the mean time consider these prices from »www.pricewatch.com/

$90 - AMD 850 Athlon 200 FSB Socket A

$53 - AMD Duron 800

$152 - Pentium III 800 100MHz bus

$103 - Celeron 800

Consider these questions:

How much do you want to spend?

What kind of performance do you expect?

What kind of technical experience is required to perform the upgrade?

Do you have the experience or do you know some one who does and can help?

When all is said and done what options are left open for future upgrades?

When all is said and done how far can I realistically overclock the given system using a good HSF?

dragon52 and Buggy both make good points.

It would be easy to replace the CPU because there are fewer things to consider. It would be harder to rebuild the system.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-700486 Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:22:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-700456 said by dragon52:

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"But the big question is are the Durons better than the PIII and the C2??? Thats what I want to know now"

i was answering this one question, not the the overall picture.(i do agree that he should just replace the cpu.)

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I would say that the Duron is certainly better than a 66 bus celeron2. Although i haven't seen any benchmarks for the 100 bus Celeron2 so I can't say for sure, but it's likely close to the duron (but still costs more). The 133 bus PIII i would certainly think would destroy the Duron MHz for MHz although the Duron is considerably better at overclocking and can easily surpass 1gig in most cases while the PIII would be pushed if OC'd that high. Overall I would prefer a PIII to a Duron, but the cost is significant and likely won't drop too much more.
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i was answering this one question, not the the overall picture.(i do agree that he should just replace the cpu.)

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-700378 Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:51:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-700345 said by dragon52:

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durons are better than the celerons, and based on who you talk to they are a little less ,about equal, or a little better than the p3's. they are a better bang for the bucks.

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They are the better bang for the buck, but it would probably be best if upgrading to avoid the whole new architecture/motherboard problem. First of all he would need to fork out 100+ for the mobo and then reinstall the OS because windows hates switching between platforms without a reinstall. The cheaper and easiest solution would be to pick up the celeron 800 (its like $110 and will probably drop soon) and just pop it in and ride it out till it needs to get faster then buy a whole new system.
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i've forgotten more than some will ever learn...(sigh)i must be getting old.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-700293 Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:26:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-699946 --
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I have a C2 600 running at 750 and I don’t see any performance advantage over the PIII 450 CPU that it replaced. Benchmark results from NU system info seem to show that this upgrade was really a downgrade.

I can push the C2 600 to 900 but there are some stability issues. A better HSF and some Arctic silver would probably do the trick.

But I digress, for the same amount of money that you would spend on a PIII 800 you could probably buy a Duron 800 and accompanying motherboard.

Keep in mind that the Athlon/Duron platform is not a dying beast whereas the PIII/C2 is.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-696586 Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:03:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-696378 said by Octavean:

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The Celeron cache is half as associative as the Pentium III cache. This coupled with the fact that the C2 has half the cache as the PIII means that the PIII should be a superior performer clock for clock.

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So do you think it would be wise to invest and buy the PIII 800 w/100Mhz FSB over the Celeron??

Thanx

Enzo
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The PIII 800/100 would give you some overhead whereas the PIII 800/133 would not.

If your motherboards FSB settings go from 100 strait to 133 MHz you may have a problem getting either 800 MHZ CPU to run at 1064 MHz. 8*112 MHz is a little more realistic with air cooling.

The C2 533a will overclock to 800 MHz almost 100% of the time and costs about $60.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-696249 Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:32:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-696149 --
Me]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-696149 Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:02:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-696114
Enzo
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Me]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-695880 Mon, 09 Apr 2001 12:43:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-695807
Thanx

Enzo
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What is your motherboard make and model?
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If you can afford it, go for the Gig. The Gig is about $260, I got my 800 for $160.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-CPU-recomendations-689646 Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:04:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/CPU-recomendations-689559
Thanx

Enzo
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