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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3646)	11/22/1998 3:36:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (2) of 14778

ZP & Daniel A celeron 300A is about $130 vs $400 for a PII 400. The ABIT BH6 mobo is a good candidate to overclock the Celeron 300A (someone help me if I do not have this right) to be a near equivalent to the PII 400. Actually, the most trouble free overclock with the 300a, relative to peripheral bus speeds like video and HDD, is to 450mhz. A pii 450 is $630 while the 300a, like ZP says is $140. Thats a $490 savings........need I say more? You will also notice the L2 cache on the PII is 512k while on the celeron is only 128k. But the celeron cache is on the chip module itself thus making it roughly as fast as the Pii cache. I forget the percentages (80%?) but not all 300a overclock. Thats the risk you take. though odds are heaveyly in your favor and many vendors are offering pretested @450mhz for an small added charge. I think all currently popular BX mobo are fine choices. Abit, Asus, Aopen, EpoX and a few others that I haven't reseached all are stable boards that allow oc'g. Abit offers the most to the serious oc'er. Which you don't have to be to participate in the cost savings. I'm just going to set my Aopen board to 100mhz x 4.5 for 450mhz and forget it, hopefully. I guess you have to decide which features are your priorities and do the reading to fine out what the different boards offer since on a performance/stability basis they are all good. tomshardware.com has the most recent roundup of these boards. Clarence

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