Ben, Thanks for that. I have seen Socket 370 Celeron 1.4s on eBay but it did also occur to me that more memory might be a better way to go, meantime mobo is Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+. O/S is WinME and I currently have 192 MB of RAM. I looked at Pentium 3s but they are a bit outside my budget!
Jim. Ben Moore wrote on Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:03 AM Subject: Re: PCWorks: Upgrading my Celeron 600 > I'm not positive but I don't think you are going to be able to install a > processor that goes much over 1000 MHz. We need to know the model of the > motherboard. You could go to the Gigabyte site and look up the specs. Going > from 600 to 1000 isn't going to give you much more speed. You might gain > some speed going to a Pentium 3 processor rather a Celeron. The larger > cache would help in the photo editing. Other stuff effects speed too. What > O/S and how much RAM are you running? > > Ben Moore > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Cladingboel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:57 AM > Subject: PCWorks: Upgrading my Celeron 600 > > > > Hi all, > > I am thinking of putting a faster Celeron (Socket 370) into my Gigabyte > motherboard with VIA chipset. Can anyone advise the > > fastest Celeron that would fit, and which would not require changes to the > motherboard. I am looking for faster handling of > > graphics in photo editing etc. > > > > Jim, in sunny Brisbane, Oz. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
