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To: Bijan Khazri who wrote (9788)	12/28/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) of 14778

I am in about the same situation as you, except I run my celeron 300 to 504 with lots of ram. Somehow I can't get too excited about a P3 500. The ones I've played with don't seem all that much faster than my 504. If I'm going to upgrade, I want it to be well worth it. I think I am going to either try dual celerons 366's OC'ed to 550 in the abit BP6. This has proven to be a very cost effective combo, and very stable. Of course, you have to either run NT4 or Win2000 to take advantage of the dual CPU's. Dual processors or not, I think everyone should be running NT4 now and Win2000 very shortly. Win2000 is a very nice OS. Or I have been thinking about trying a new AMD Athlon in a ASUS K7M mb. Step Thermodynamics (www.step-thermodynamics.com) has some nice options with the Athlons. For example they'll guarantee an Athlon 550 to run at 650 for $366 (and it'll probably do 700). That is a combo that I think will feel and run alot faster than a P3. It has been an awful long time since I've used an AMD, but the reviews are good and it seems to be a very popular way to go. Am I the only one that doesn't get too excited about a P3 500 or 550 over my OC'ed celeron at 504? Any comments? Dan

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