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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bijan Khazri who wrote (9788)	12/27/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

MB: Abit BE6. Supports ATA-66, and I have had good experience with a BX6-2. I suggest you take a look at the Abit VA6 motherboard. It supports a 133 megahertz front side bus. However, I don't know when it will be available. The Abit VA6 was announced on 12-24-99. For more information see post 9783 and abit.nl

To: Bijan Khazri who wrote (9788)	12/27/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 14778

CPU: PIII 500. Seems to be the best balance between price and performance. I'm thinking about a similar issue, although I'm sort of hooked on ASUS motherboards. I currently use PII 450s, and am looking to move to PIII. My plan is to put a couple of non-coppermine PIII 600's into my current motherboard (a dual-processor ASUS P2B-DS which can't handle coppermines), because I agree that there just won't be enough 820 boards around for the near term. The reason I'm hesitating is that Intel just announced within the last few days that they're already shipping limited quantities of the 800MhZ PIII to box builders, and will ship them in volume in January, which is 2 months ahead of schedule. Therefore I have to figure that within a few weeks, the price of the retail-box .25-micron PIII 600's will have to drop from around $420 (now) to around $300. So I'm waiting a few more weeks to buy processors. By the way, I don't know your motherboard but I think it's possible that you actually will get a little more speed out of PC133 memory even on a 100Mhz bus, if you adjust some BIOS settings. Regards, --QwikSand

To: Bijan Khazri who wrote (9788)	12/28/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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