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PIII upgrade! I'm in hardware junkie heaven!
I finally broke down and replaced my Celery 400 with a PIII 550E. Like, wow man!
I'm @ a computer show here in town yesterday, and I cough up 250 even for a slot one 550e (SL3V5). This is boxed, with the standard HS&F.
Go home, swap processors, boot at 550 with my existing install.
Power down, raise FSB to 133, and reboot. I immediately am greated by the tag line that says, PIII 733. I have reached nirvana.
the only down side is that I plunked down 40 bucks for a net-n-dudes celery cooler about a month ago. I had anticipated buying a FCPGA PIII, which the fan would have ended up on. Oh, well, I'm sure I'll find a use for it.
BTW, I also picked up a second 13.6 WD hard drive (7200+2MB), so I can do the Promise U66-to-FT66 conversion, when I get the time and the soldering iron hot.
For the first time in my computer life, I'll actually be somewhere near the top of the food chain. And the satisfying thing is I never plunked down three grand to do it. I built my first computer from bargain parts, then upgraded here and there to get the job done. Sigh, if only my career were in the same shape
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I'm one happy junky...
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Home System:
G400 DH 32MB, PD 5.41, bios 1.5-22, TGL 1.0
RR-G, VidTools 1.51
Win98SE, DX 4.07.00
PIII 550E @733, Asus P3B-F 1.03, Bios 1004
128MB Crucial PC133, CTX VL710, SBLive Value, liveware 3.0
Promise Ultra66, bios 1.13, Driver 1.43
w/1xWD136BA + 1xWD205BA
Work System:
Dual PPro 200 w/256k cache, Intel Providence PR440FX w/onboard UW SCSI, bios # 1.00.08
128MB 60ns buffered asyncronous ECC DRAM
9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES UW SCSI
Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB
Hitachi SuperScan Elite 17
WinNT 4.0 SP6
I'm @ a computer show here in town yesterday, and I cough up 250 even for a slot one 550e (SL3V5). This is boxed, with the standard HS&F.
Go home, swap processors, boot at 550 with my existing install.
Power down, raise FSB to 133, and reboot. I immediately am greated by the tag line that says, PIII 733. I have reached nirvana.
the only down side is that I plunked down 40 bucks for a net-n-dudes celery cooler about a month ago. I had anticipated buying a FCPGA PIII, which the fan would have ended up on. Oh, well, I'm sure I'll find a use for it.
BTW, I also picked up a second 13.6 WD hard drive (7200+2MB), so I can do the Promise U66-to-FT66 conversion, when I get the time and the soldering iron hot.
For the first time in my computer life, I'll actually be somewhere near the top of the food chain. And the satisfying thing is I never plunked down three grand to do it. I built my first computer from bargain parts, then upgraded here and there to get the job done. Sigh, if only my career were in the same shape
.I'm one happy junky...
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Home System:
G400 DH 32MB, PD 5.41, bios 1.5-22, TGL 1.0
RR-G, VidTools 1.51
Win98SE, DX 4.07.00
PIII 550E @733, Asus P3B-F 1.03, Bios 1004
128MB Crucial PC133, CTX VL710, SBLive Value, liveware 3.0
Promise Ultra66, bios 1.13, Driver 1.43
w/1xWD136BA + 1xWD205BA
Work System:
Dual PPro 200 w/256k cache, Intel Providence PR440FX w/onboard UW SCSI, bios # 1.00.08
128MB 60ns buffered asyncronous ECC DRAM
9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES UW SCSI
Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB
Hitachi SuperScan Elite 17
WinNT 4.0 SP6
), 28.0 gig Seagate Barrcuda drive 7200rpm baby!!!
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