Re: [TCLUG:4691] building box, budget $1000

[brady <bradyh@bitstream.net>]

Check out http://www.tomshardware.com/ for info on and reviews of motherboards.  And of course be sure to check out the Linux hardware site at http://www.linuxhardware.net/ before buying the wrong thing.  (Though Processors and harddrives are pretty safe.  I've heard of people having funny problems with certain BIOSs but that's pretty rare too.)

BTW:  I saw a benchmark recently that showed the latest Celeron's being faster than both the Pentium II and Pentium III at approximataly the same clock speed.

>The Celeron chips have little or no L2 cache though.
>One report I heard was the Celeron 300 with no L2 cache ran similar to a
>Pentium 266, not much better than a 233MMX.  The Celeron 300a has 128kb L2
>cache but it's still a far cry from 512kb cache in a normal Pentium CPU.
>
>Kevin
>
>Michael Hicks wrote:
>
>> > *motherboard   FIC 2011 or  FIC 2012  ~$30-50  www.pricewatch.com
>> > *cpu  233MMX  ~$75       www.blacklabmicro
>>
>> I've heard (sorry, I didn't do any research..) that you can get a 300
>> MHz Celeron + Motherboard for ~$150..  better than a P233, and just as
>> good as a PII running at 300MHz..  If you find the right place to buy
>> from, you can possibly get an overclockable celeron -- 450MHz for less
>> than $200 (IIRC)
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