Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: > Any idea where to get that card? AMD's are sooo much cheaper > (usually). > Nope...my SMP machine is using dual P-Pro 200's... :-) (with 192 mb RAM! ) John

Re: Re:[newbie]PIII Performance

1999-08-21 Thread RReed
6 PM Subject: Re:[newbie]PIII Performance > OK, lots of people have had a say. > > Ask yourself, "Why do I want to upgrade?" > > If your answer is "to build a fire-breathing behemoth", then go for the > best you can get. > > If your answer is "to el

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Brett Jones
MSI adaptors on a Slot 1 motherboard (not socket 7). I'm running a supermicro board, 2 MSI adaptor and a pair of celery 300a's over clocked to 450. That and the 256 megs of ram, a Tekram u2w scsi card and a 4.5 gig ibm u2w drive, makes it run rather speedy. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: > Can t

Re:[newbie]PIII Performance

1999-08-20 Thread Civileme
OK, lots of people have had a say. Ask yourself, "Why do I want to upgrade?" If your answer is "to build a fire-breathing behemoth", then go for the best you can get. If your answer is "to eliminate some perceived slowness", then get something better than you have. Since you say you have a PII

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread RReed
reason for p3 cooling is they are not in a casket otherwise they run hotter. remove your p2 from its casket it runs even cooler.   RReed   - Original Message - From: Civileme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] PIII

Re: Celerons and SMP( was RE: [newbie] PIII performance)

1999-08-20 Thread Steve Philp
Ken Wilson wrote: > > I stand to be corrected but I believe SMP is actually implemented on the > motherboard and not within the CPU so the type of processor is not as > critical as what processors the board will accept, within reason of > course. i.e. Don't try this with a pair of 8086 chips. :)

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread InafewmiN
I have 128 megs of RAM I dont need/want anymore :) jerrud

Celerons and SMP( was RE: [newbie] PIII performance)

1999-08-20 Thread Ken Wilson
Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gavin Grabias > Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 2:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] PIII performance > > > Can the new PPGA Celerons do SMP??? I thought that they > needed some

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Gavin Grabias
Can the new PPGA Celerons do SMP??? I thought that they needed some special adaptor or something like that. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: > Thing that a fellow in our LUG did which I thought was a great buy was... > > get a duel socket 7 board thats out there now for about $125 > > BUy two c

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread James Schofield
Thing that a fellow in our LUG did which I thought was a great buy was... get a duel socket 7 board thats out there now for about $125 BUy two celeron 333 at about $90 each.. $128meg at about $150 and you have a $500 KICK ASS MACHINE the new 2.2 kernel has dual processor support .. and his (

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Gavin Grabias
I would get the PIII 450. You can actually get the cpu for around $250. The temperatures in the PIII is much better then the PII's . Thats my .02 Gavin On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: > In my opinion you should stick with the PII, The PIII doesn't worth the extra > money. > > El jue, 19 ago

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Ty Mixon
Any idea where to get that card? AMD's are sooo much cheaper (usually). -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<&

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am upgrading my computer from a PII 266 to something faster. I am > considering a PIII 450 for 319$ or i can go for a PII 400 for 100 less. Does > Linux (and future apps) use the extra PIII extentions, or should i get the > PII? Right now, Linu

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Guillermo Belli
In my opinion you should stick with the PII, The PIII doesn't worth the extra money. El jue, 19 ago 1999, escribiste: > I am upgrading my computer from a PII 266 to something faster. I am > considering a PIII 450 for 319$ or i can go for a PII 400 for 100 less. Does > Linux (and future apps) u

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Ty Mixon
There is one advantage to buying an Intel chip that I've found. All the dual processor boards (except one I'm told (by The Computer Underground Pres)) only support Intel chips. So I'm stuck buying an Intel chip when I start building my new machine. Sigh . . . -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-20 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
I'd go with the AMD K6-3. even the K6-2's are a good bet. Just add RAM and sit back and enjoy. 8-) "up@3am" wrote: > Buy the PII > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:04 PM > Subject: [newbie] PIII performance >

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Buy the PII - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:04 PM Subject: [newbie] PIII performance > I am upgrading my computer from a PII 266 to something faster. I am > considering a PIII 450 for 319$ or i can go for a PII 400

Re: [newbie] PIII performance

1999-08-19 Thread Civileme
Bottom line:   INtel made the P-III to sell new computer chips so manufacturers could sell new computers.  Their marketing department is extremely smart. Fact is, they're working on a new 64-bit processor called the Merced which they will NEED to keep up with that fire-breathing Athlon, a process