upgrading cpu for better GPL performance?

Hello, I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good. Presently, I have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, and Geforce 2 MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don't plan on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost in performance, especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to just buy one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or know if this would be a useful upgrade? Thanks in advance, Pascal

Is your current Celeron FCPGA or is it PPGA? I think all of the Celerons under 533 are PPGA, which means you'd probably have to buy a new motherboard in order to use a FCPGA processor. That might still only cost you around $100 though. Ryan

I have a similar system, except for having a BH6 motherboard. I got a useful performance improvement by going to a 566 Celeron on a slot 1 to socket 370 adaptor and running it at 850. Hope that helps, Peter Holt On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:40:48 GMT, [email hidden] (Slo2burn) wrote:

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>Hello, > >I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good. Presently, I >have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, and Geforce 2 >MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don't plan >on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost in performance, >especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, >since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to just buy >one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. > >Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or know if >this would be a useful upgrade? > >Thanks in advance, >Pascal

Celeron 300 doesn't exist in FCPGA form, mine happens to be the PPGA. My motherboard does however support FCPGA. The reason I want FCPGA is that i was checking overclockers.com and the 533 PPGA didn't seem at all as overclockable as the FCPGA version. From 533 to 633 (all FCPGA), there seems to be a high success rate of overclocking. [email hidden] (Ryan) wrote in <6T%u7.332$[email hidden]>:

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>Is your current Celeron FCPGA or is it PPGA? I think all of the >Celerons under 533 are PPGA, which means you'd probably have to buy a >new motherboard in order to use a FCPGA processor. That might still >only cost you around $100 though. > >Ryan > >

Cool! Then I would go for it! The motherboard I had when I had a celeron only supported PPGA, so I ended up getting an entire new system. Ryan

Many months ago, I upgraded from the Celeron 300a (running at 450) to a Celeron 566 (running at 850). I don't recall the specs on configuration but I wound up having to use the Abit Slotket, which worked just fine. I'm using an Abit BH6 mobo. This chip was pretty easy to overclock, and it's _definitely_ worthwhile with GPL. BTW, I got all the help I needed regarding the upgrade and overclocking at alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit and alt.comp.hardware.overclocking Good Luck. Slo2burn wrote:

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> Hello, > > I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good. Presently, I > have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, and Geforce 2 > MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don't plan > on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost in performance, > especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, > since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to just buy > one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. > > Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or know if > this would be a useful upgrade? > > Thanks in advance, > Pascal

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I have a Celeron 600 running at 999 (the next notch up required too high a voltage increase); been rock solid stable for around 8 months now. The primary trick is to get the right S-spec, the rest of it you undoubtedly already know since you are already overclocked. I haven't kept track of what the hot setup is lately, but www.overclockers.com and alt.comp.hardware.overclocking seemed to be the best sources for info on which chips and rev levels to get. The other side of the coin of course is that a new CPU and motherboard doesn't really cost all that much if you look around. A buddy of mine just bought a 1.4 ghz Athlon recently, and I thought he said he paid less than $100 for it. "Slo2burn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Qx_u7.427$[email hidden]... > Hello, > > I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good.Presently, I > have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, andGeforce 2 > MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don'tplan > on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost inperformance, > especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, > since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to justbuy > one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. > > Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or knowif > this would be a useful upgrade? > > Thanks in advance, > Pascal

"Slo2burn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Qx_u7.427$[email hidden]... > Hello, > > I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good. Presently, I > have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, and Geforce 2 > MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don'tplan

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> on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost in performance, > especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, > since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to just buy > one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. > > Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or know if > this would be a useful upgrade? > > Thanks in advance, > Pascal

If you can still find it, the celeron 566 overclocks to 850 very well, and will run gpl beatifully for you. You'll need to get a slotket for it, the AbitIII slotket works very well. I have been running this combo on a Abit BH6 motherboard for some time now without a glitch. I personally am looking at dropping in a P3 1gig slot one it mine to hopefully get a few more months out of this BH6 board. Don Burnette

Same here...BH-6, 566 @ 850...runs like a champ :) "Peter Holt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I have a similar system, except for having a BH6 motherboard. I got a > useful performance improvement by going to a 566 Celeron on a slot 1 > to socket 370 adaptor and running it at 850. > > Hope that helps, > Peter Holt > > On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:40:48 GMT, [email hidden] (Slo2burn) wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good. Presently,

I > >have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, and Geforce 2 > >MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don'tplan

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> >on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost in performance, > >especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, > >since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to just buy > >one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. > > > >Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or know if > >this would be a useful upgrade? > > > >Thanks in advance, > >Pascal >

Don, I just put an OS in a new 1 gig notebook with 256 pc100. FWIW, not much difference then my 566 @ 876. It was to say, at the very least disappointing. Abit KG7-Raid AMD Athlon 1.4 @ 1.575 512 Crucial "Don Burnette" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:2T7v7.32111$[email hidden]... > > "Slo2burn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Qx_u7.427$[email hidden]... > > Hello, > > > > I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good. Presently,I > > have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, and Geforce2 > > MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don't > plan > > on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost inperformance, > > especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, > > since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to just buy > > one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. > > > > Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or knowif

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> > this would be a useful upgrade? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Pascal > > If you can still find it, the celeron 566 overclocks to 850 very well, and > will run gpl beatifully for you. > You'll need to get a slotket for it, the AbitIII slotket works very well.

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> have been running this combo on a Abit BH6 motherboard for some time now > without a glitch. > I personally am looking at dropping in a P3 1gig slot one it mine to > hopefully get a few more months out of this BH6 board. > > Don Burnette > > > > >

On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:48:01 GMT, [email hidden] (Slo2burn) wrote: >Celeron 300 doesn't exist in FCPGA form, mine happens to be the PPGA. My >motherboard does however support FCPGA. The reason I want FCPGA is that i >was checking overclockers.com and the 533 PPGA didn't seem at all as >overclockable as the FCPGA version. From 533 to 633 (all FCPGA), there >seems to be a high success rate of overclocking. The reason that the 533 doesn't overclock is because it is based on the P2 core. The 566 and higher celerons are based on the coppermine core and thus are very overclockable. Good luck trying to get one though, they've been out of production for a long time. Maybe second hand? Rafe Mc

Upgraded a C300@450 on a Asus P2B to a C600@900 using a slotkey-adapter. Was worth the upgrade. If you cannot test the CPU at 100 MHz before buying, better go for a C800. I expect no advantage of a C600 @ 66 over a C450 @ 100. JensSchumi BTW: Have a V3 2000 On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:40:48 GMT, [email hidden] (Slo2burn) wrote:

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>Hello, > >I was just wondering if a cpu upgrade would do me any good. Presently, I >have a Celeron300 (running @ 450), 256MB Ram, SB Live 5.1, and Geforce 2 >MX400 (32meg w/ tv out), using an Abit BX2 rev.2 motherboard. I don't plan >on spending much, maybe $100, but I'd like to get a boost in performance, >especially in GPL. My plan is to try to find a 533-600 FCPGA Celeron, >since these seem to easily overclock onto the 100mhz bus, or to just buy >one of the newer 100mhz celerons (800 and up) if prices go down. > >Does anyone have a similar system to what I want to upgrade to or know if >this would be a useful upgrade? > >Thanks in advance, >Pascal

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