How about this price (maybe shipping charges are too high, but..) Pentium 3 1.13GB for 65 bucks. not so bad. HTH Jorge
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1029 At 04:11 p.m. 18/09/03 +1000, you wrote: >Ben, Thanks for that. I have seen Socket 370 Celeron 1.4s on eBay but >it did also occur to me that more memory might be a >better way to go, meantime mobo is Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+. O/S is WinME and I >currently have 192 MB of RAM. I looked at Pentium >3s but they are a bit outside my budget! > >Jim. > >Ben Moore wrote on Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:03 AM >Subject: Re: PCWorks: Upgrading my Celeron 600 > > > > I'm not positive but I don't think you are going to be able to install a > > processor that goes much over 1000 MHz. We need to know the model of the > > motherboard. You could go to the Gigabyte site and look up the > specs. Going > > from 600 to 1000 isn't going to give you much more speed. You might gain > > some speed going to a Pentium 3 processor rather a Celeron. The larger > > cache would help in the photo editing. Other stuff effects speed too. What > > O/S and how much RAM are you running? > > > > Ben Moore > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Cladingboel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:57 AM > > Subject: PCWorks: Upgrading my Celeron 600 > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > I am thinking of putting a faster Celeron (Socket 370) into my Gigabyte > > motherboard with VIA chipset. Can anyone advise the > > > fastest Celeron that would fit, and which would not require changes > to the > > motherboard. I am looking for faster handling of > > > graphics in photo editing etc. > > > > > > Jim, in sunny Brisbane, Oz. Jorge Camboni, GY Electronics, Richardson, TX ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
