On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, G. Fenstermacher wrote:
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> >However: Intel has announced they're leaving out the bond on the pin that
> >allows dual usage on the celerons, so be quick, pretty soon they may not
> >be any dual-capable celerons out there anymore (what will happen with the
> >Abit BP6 then? Take a guess).
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> Is this confirmed?
It's in the rumor mill, but it would be pretty understandable. I'm not
betting on it just being a rumor. The price difference is just too much
for me. PII prices are just rediculous.
> I was thinking about getting a BP6 and replacing my
> venerable dual ppro150.. But, I don't plan on dropping money into anything
> that has no future upgrade path whatever (I'm still stinging from the ppro's
> past).
Don't worry, with approx $175 for the board and $100 for the processors
each (C333/ppga, to be clocked at 100Mhz*5->500Mhz), who would try to
'upgrade' a $175 motherboard by throwing away $200 worth of processors?
Really, I consider it sane to buy a motherboard and processors, and keep
them together until they reach the dustbin. Once you would want to buy new
processors (those of the type which are significantly faster than the
celerons on the Abit board) then those processors will be using new
technologies, and will be requiring new motherboards for maximum
performance, such as 133Mhz FSB, RDRAM, maybe Slot A interface, etc.
The Abit dual ppga board will be 'limited' to SDRAM, 100Mhz, UDMA66, etc.
Those technologies might seem advanced now, but they are technologies o
fthe present, not technologies of the future. Motherboard technologies of
the present work best with present processors. There may be processors
which might be nice 'upgrade' candidates a year from now or so, but those
processors will work best in newer motherboards, and while the motherboard
is not the most expensive part of the computer, it wouldn't make much
sense to salvage the motherboard and sacrifice speed of your fantastic
upgrade processors in return.
> I guess if this is the case, I'll just buy a dual slot-1 motherboard and go
> that route.
The gigabyte is a great board, the PCchips is very nice too (spdif digital
I/O on the motherboard is a neat feature, see www.cpureview.com for a
review), but also slot1 will not live forever (rumors also say that the
celeron successors will be 100Mhz FSB, and PII/PIII successors will be
133Mhz FSB, which the current slot1 motherboards can't do).
So, I say: Buy your processors together with and optimally fit for the
motherboard, and keep them as a pair... Upgrade by buying new processors
_and_ a new motherboard.
Cya,
Jelle.
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