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

To: peter michaelson who wrote (932)	5/31/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Quick reply on Celeron overclocking vs. alternatives: This was discussed briefly earlier by Zeuspaul, myself and others--a search should pull up the URL, or it may be in ZP's excellent Dream Machine Auxiliary. IMHO, a PII 233 may serve you better. They can be had for $180 or less, and generally can easily overclock to 300 mhz or more. Plus, there's no futzing to get the chip in slot one, and in real world apps rather than synthetic benchmarks, you're likely to notice the cache in the PII quite a bit. Good luck, Dave

To: peter michaelson who wrote (932)	5/31/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: LTBH	Respond to of 14778

Overclocking Been there, done that. Proceed with caution. First I personally don't recommend it. Second if you're determined then check a number of sites and reviews. Include some non clocking sites in your analysis. Toms and Anandtech are overclock sites and you need to read with great care and then compare to other site info. Also think you may be mentally overstating some of Toms words. If you will be using this for a work or trade system, are you willing to have it fry when you have money at risk?? Again if you're really determined to go this route, note that anything over 20% overclock is verrrry verrry foolish and a modest 10% is realistic. I'm currently running on an "old" 150 OC to 166 bought when there was a big price delta between the two. I've never fried a CPU, but its a very real potential and I get the feeling from your post you aren't willing to settle for a modest OC. Networm