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

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (653)	5/17/1998 2:02:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Celeron Machine Dave, I agree with all of your points, thanks for the input. My post strayed a little from the original recommendation for an overclocked Celeron machine. If I had been true to the original post I probably would have priced the ABIT mobo as overclockers seem to like it. My focus was on pricing and I missed the design aspects. Our design opportunities seem to be expanding with the current set of mainboards and chips. Celeron to 450Mhz PII will all work on the same mainboard with the same RAM ( I agree there is an issue with fastening the Celeron in a BX board). With the price difference between the Celeron and a 266 it does not make sense to opt for the Celeron (except in an overclocking situation. The lack of cache seems to provide some advantage to the overclockers) We could design a machine that started with a Celeron yet had the capability of turning into a dual 450 machine as the price of the 450 comes into reach. Although the harddware seems to provide opportunities now I would be inclined to wait until July for Win98 before moving on a new toy. Changing operating systems is a drag. Does anyone know how a dual boot setup (win98/NT4.0} works in a machine with dual processors? Is the dual processor setup in the BIOS or the operating system? In other words, can I set up a machine with dual processors and have the dual processors work in NT and have only one work in Win98 (as Win98 does not support dual processors) without having to go into the BIOS when I boot into the selected OS? Way back I think pae asked how long does one wait for "the bugs to be worked out" before one moves on new computer products. I pondered that question and never came up with an answer. Last week on the ESC site, paraphrasing...waiting will not help, the bugs will never be worked out, the manufacturers will just come out with new product. Zeuspaul