+> Hi,
Hi Jens,
+> My Socket 7 mainboard just died, so I am wondering where to jump. I read a
+> couple cpureview.com's articles and the general feeling was overclocking is
+> pure luck, so I don't count on it (it would be nice though).
Better not count on it if you have to do some *real* work. But it can
be nice and make your old HW last longer, since at the end of a hardware's
lifecycle (3 years?) you may still use it, when it's overclocked and if
your HW burns down: Well, it was already at the end of it's lifecycle, wasn't it? ;-)
Indeed, if you take *very* good care what you do, i. E. like Kryotech,
overclocking may simply be "using a hardware within it's tolerances".
+> At the moment, I can get an ABIT BP6 + 2 Celeron 400 for DM 540.-. For the
+> same price I can get an ABIT BH6 and one P2/400. I wouldn't mind other
+> mainboards, though.
That's a nice price. - But if you don't care for SMP, I can currently only
recommend buying an AMD Athlon. - They are extremely cheap compared to
their performance.
You can get a 500 MHz already below 500,- DM
(http://www.computer-profis.de/cpu/index.htm for example) and a matching
board for below 350,- DM. - Both is together a little higher than your
540,- DM limit, but well worth it.
An AMD 500 Athlon is abaout as fast as a 550 MHz PIII in the integer area,
and when doing floatingpoint calculations, even a 600 MHz PIII can't catch
up with the 500 MHz AMD.
Remember: a PIII 500 MHz costs about 530/540,- DM, while the 500 MHz Athlon
costs about 490,- DM!
+> Which would you recommend, not counting on overclocking? Are the Cel400's
+> really so much worse than the 366 versions (because of the 66MHz FSB?)
+>
+> so many questions... =;)
Go for the Athlons!
They have 100 MHz DRAMs (like normal PIII), but have a memory-bus running
at 200 MHz. Within a couple of month there will be mainboards available
which use 133 MHz RAMs, so the membus runs at 266 MHz. So you can expect
a speed-improvement for your system only by changing motherboard and RAM.
And: That's not enough! - Within the next months there will be Athlon
SMP boards available. - Crossbarswitch based. That's technology from good
ole Cray Research... - Did I mention that there will be soon the 1 GHz
Athlons out? ;-)
Any questions left, where the power is?
+> Windows NT indeed has very low Total Cost of Ownership. Trouble is,
+> Microsoft _owns_ Windows NT. You just licensed it.
Great Sig! :-)))
Best regards,
Herbert
"Now I consider the anti-Linux group at Microsoft to be just a Linux user in
disguise. They're trying to find the really bad problems in Linux. They haven't
produced much so far but I expect that we'll get some really good bug reports
from them..." Linus Thorvalds at the Linux BOF at the USENIX 1999
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