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To: Spots who wrote (5666)	1/29/1999 10:20:00 AM
From: Steven Bowen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Question from a complete novice; I'd never heard of over clocking until I started lurking here a couple months ago. But now I'm wondering, if I were to buy an assembled computer (I know, a bad word around here), from a uBid or OnSale, such as the Hewlett Packard Pavilions sold at uBid, which uses the 300MHz Celeron, would I be able to (try to) overclock it to 450MHz? Or is this a complete function of combining the Celeron with the correct mother board and Ram??? Obviously, the auction sites don't get too specific about the hardware. Is there anyway to read the auction page and tell if it could be overclockable? Looks like you could buy one of these for the mid $400 range, with a better/bigger/faster hard drive, CD, modem, etc, than I currently have. I'm thinking I could buy a new computer for not much more than I would spend to upgrade just these three items. But I'm wondering if I should look for one with the 300 Celeron for over clocking. Thanks for any advice. Steve

To: Spots who wrote (5666)	1/29/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

What I've been saying is: Balance the costs. Neither rebuilding an OS NOR making an image is free. We disagree on the weight of the OS rebuild vs the weight of making the image and the best time to implement. I agree that the need/balance will vary depending on ones circumstances. I implied from your post that making an image is somehow difficult or time consuming. My experience is that it is neither. When the estimated cost of making, maintaining, and restoring images exceeds the estimated cost of rebuilding, make the image. I believe the best time to make the image is at the beginning. It is hard to predict how far back one will want to go for an image restore. The best first opportunity IMO is an image of the original install before any changes are made. Then as certain milestones are met additional images should be made. In Clarence's case I believe the cost of reinstalling is potentially high. Jon is an experienced installer and he had trouble installing Win98 on the second drive. Zeuspaul