Well it depends actually a lot of what you want to do...
I just bough a BP6 with 2 celeron 433 (total = 866 Mhz) and it's pretty neat...
I bought it for 391� (Let's talk euro instead of DM ! :-) ) all included !
(VAT + Transport)
I'm going to make a web server of it so linux SMP sounds great, but if you
want to play you might go for a single processor configuration with hight
frequency... Athlon sounds pretty good then !...
but 510 � is the lowest price I saw for the couple Athlon + Motherboard...
I bought that a couple of weeks ago so I would reconsider it if I had to
buy it now trying to find benchmarks comparaison between Athlon and BP6
with 433 procs...
For your information I have also a PII 450 with which I can play, rc5
benchmark is 1.252 KKeys/s while my config is 1.200 KKey/s but * 2 = 2.400
KKey/s :-))
I'd like to see the athlon bench on this...
Anyway I think the BP6 deal is a pretty good one but I don't know how long
it will last, I mean how long intel will allow this... Maybe they'll be too
much busy dealing with Amd and will forget to lock the SMP capabilities of
the Celeron...
I've heard also that some new PIII are already available in S370 format...
I wonder if they would fit in a BP6...
Overcloking now ...
Testing a bit the board I think the farther I tryed is 539.5211 Mhz (83 Mhz
FSB clock)
reaching a nice 1076.43 BogoMips... (It doesn't mean much but it's nice
anyway :-))
Well I won't even try to run stable at that speed for my production
configuration !...
But there's matter to play with !...
At 14:27 26/10/99 +0000, Herbert Wengatz 42850 wrote:
>+> Hi,
>
>Hi Jens,
>
>+> My Socket 7 mainboard just died, so I am wondering where to jump. I read a
>+> couple cpureview.com's articles and the general feeling was overclocking is
>+> pure luck, so I don't count on it (it would be nice though).
>
>Better not count on it if you have to do some *real* work. But it can
>be nice and make your old HW last longer, since at the end of a hardware's
>lifecycle (3 years?) you may still use it, when it's overclocked and if
>your HW burns down: Well, it was already at the end of it's lifecycle,
>wasn't it? ;-)
>
>Indeed, if you take *very* good care what you do, i. E. like Kryotech,
>overclocking may simply be "using a hardware within it's tolerances".
>
>+> At the moment, I can get an ABIT BP6 + 2 Celeron 400 for DM 540.-. For the
>+> same price I can get an ABIT BH6 and one P2/400. I wouldn't mind other
>+> mainboards, though.
>
>That's a nice price. - But if you don't care for SMP, I can currently only
>recommend buying an AMD Athlon. - They are extremely cheap compared to
>their performance.
>
>You can get a 500 MHz already below 500,- DM
>(http://www.computer-profis.de/cpu/index.htm for example) and a matching
>board for below 350,- DM. - Both is together a little higher than your
>540,- DM limit, but well worth it.
>
>An AMD 500 Athlon is abaout as fast as a 550 MHz PIII in the integer area,
>and when doing floatingpoint calculations, even a 600 MHz PIII can't catch
>up with the 500 MHz AMD.
>
>Remember: a PIII 500 MHz costs about 530/540,- DM, while the 500 MHz Athlon
>costs about 490,- DM!
>
>+> Which would you recommend, not counting on overclocking? Are the Cel400's
>+> really so much worse than the 366 versions (because of the 66MHz FSB?)
>+>
>+> so many questions... =;)
>
>Go for the Athlons!
>
>They have 100 MHz DRAMs (like normal PIII), but have a memory-bus running
>at 200 MHz. Within a couple of month there will be mainboards available
>which use 133 MHz RAMs, so the membus runs at 266 MHz. So you can expect
>a speed-improvement for your system only by changing motherboard and RAM.
>
>And: That's not enough! - Within the next months there will be Athlon
>SMP boards available. - Crossbarswitch based. That's technology from good
>ole Cray Research... - Did I mention that there will be soon the 1 GHz
>Athlons out? ;-)
I can't wait to see that :-))
>Any questions left, where the power is?
>
>+> Windows NT indeed has very low Total Cost of Ownership. Trouble is,
>+> Microsoft _owns_ Windows NT. You just licensed it.
>
>Great Sig! :-)))
>
>Best regards,
>
> Herbert
>
>
>"Now I consider the anti-Linux group at Microsoft to be just a Linux user in
>disguise. They're trying to find the really bad problems in Linux. They
>haven't
>produced much so far but I expect that we'll get some really good bug reports
>from them..." Linus Thorvalds at the Linux BOF at the USENIX 1999
>
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