celeron sucks??? or ??

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Ouch, that's gotta hurt (no sarcasm meant)


I've still got a pentium 133 system up and running. I'm all but sure the original 386 qbasic beast would work if I'd pull it out of the basement, lol

It's all good ^_^
 
I concur, and would say that the duron is a much better proc than a celeron. Back when AXPs were more expensive the duron was a pretty good deal.

"Don't question it!!!" - Err
 
kind of a lot of posts here but my opinion is that you should simply get another pentium proc if possible BUT if you for some reason need to change your mobo then I would say that if you are looking for a cheaper setup than maybe switching to AMD isn't a bad idea although those P4s are getting cheaper all the time....

"Don't question it!!!" - Err
 
I have a Pentium III system that has been running for 3 years with no problems (other than a hd failure but that doesn't count againt Intel) AND here is the real kicker - a VIA CHIPSET!!!

"Don't question it!!!" - Err
 
I was agreeing with what you said about sk8er's hatred of amd but his intel stuff keeps going bad after 6 months

It's all good ^_^
 
Not even 6 months, almost every 2 weeks he posts here with a problem, a hard problem, not just a bug.

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If I could see the Matrix, I'd tell you I am only seeing 0s inside your head! :tongue:
 
Well hey, I have a VIA system, and it certainly doesn't run into real problems!
Most of them are just Windows XP's love for bugs, or hard drive problems.

Then again if someone could show examples of what a chipset problem is, maybe I'd identify one if I ever came upon one in the past.

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If I could see the Matrix, I'd tell you I am only seeing 0s inside your head! :tongue:
 
although those P4s are getting cheaper all the time....
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ALTHOUGH AMD has just recently done a huge price drop, bringing the 2600+ about 80$ less than the 2.4GHZ!
The 2500+ is at 89$, an overclocker would drool at the reality this is.

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do you know what an a$$hole is? it's you. yes you are an a$$hole. you are a tight anal retentive bastard who's probably a pedophile. You never got laid and no girl likes you and thinks you're ugly. so you go around being an a$$hole to everyone that can't go up to you and physicaly punch you because no one likes you. You fat a$$ loser!
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why dont you repond to what he said instead of just spewing generic insults?

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well i have a P-Pro 200MHz AND an AMD K5P133 (100MHz) sitting in a corner at home.. both work fine.. i use them occasionally for real old games. both run win98se and neither have crashed in years
 
Hi!

I've built a couple of celeron 1.7 and 2.0 machines and the 1.7 is much slower than the 2.0:s despite all other parts being the same. That ought not to be so since the 1.7 and the 2.o should essantially be the same except that the 2.0 is built with 13micron technology, same cache and so on.

Well anyway, for me/us it helped to remove Nortonantivirus this was the singel biggest slowdownprg of them all.

GL

Turk
 
300 mhz is not a small amount .. :) remember just a few yrs ago a PII 300 was a dream machine and it almost started with 4.77mhz XT machines .. my friend had one and i had that 286-12 mhz .. our benchmark was how fast the list comes up when u use the "dir" command :)))
 
You simply weren't using the best hardware available. None of my VIA boards could run my Aureal SQ2500 card properly due to a PCI latency bug, which often caused problems with SB Live cards as well. And the SQ2500 was the best board you could get at the time.

None of my VIA boards could handle 4 bus mastering PCI cards either.

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btw ... i tried to run sb live 1024! on a asus p3b-f with PIII 650 it was never runing on the 1st pci slot... anyhow even on via whatever 266 chipset board.. it still doesnt run on the 1st pci .. i dont know what to say .. when u plug it in another slot it works like crazy :)) anyhow .. anyhow anyhow .. just wanted to say that :) thats all..
 
You can't share that card's IRQ with the video card, network card, or IDE controller. PCI Slot1 used to be shared with the AGP card on most boards.

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so what does that mean .. i know u cant share agp irq with something else.. if everything sitting on 1st slot will try to share the agp's IRQ... whats the use of having the 1st pci slot???? or do u mean ... its just about sb live ?? tries the same IRQ on the first slot????
 
I think manufacturers were assuming that you'd either use an AGP card in that slot or a PCI card in the next one down, for video.

Some things are IRQ friendly. For example, my soundcard can't share with any of those things, yet it shares fine with my USB controller. So depending on what you're installing, you MIGHT find something that CAN use that slot, just not the things I listed, for example.

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