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Re: Overclocking Celeron 300a to 450
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:22:24 GMT
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
motherboard, I'm pretty happy with my $276 combo that might just
perform as well as the $820 combo I would have to buy to get a true
P2-450.  And my cache runs at full speed, not half the CPU speed like
the normal P2.

_Very_ nice.


Running Win98 on the system now.  Once I add a SCSI adapter and UW
drive (building it in bits and pieces now) I will probably throw Linux
on it and see how it likes it.

Probably pretty well. :) It's a shame to put a (largely) 16-bit OS on a nice
processor like that.


Only thing is, I don't think I can do both of those with Linux.  It
may be possible, I just don't think *I* can do it.  Oh well, enough
rambling.  Gotta go scope out low-end systems.

Of course it's possible.

I haven't done it though, 'cause I try to avoid needing a printer ever.
("Paper? What's that for?")

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Overclocking Celeron 300a to 450
 
(...) Oh yeah. I also got a nice Optiquest V95 19" monitor to go with it. Run that off my Marvel G200-TV video card. :) I would have liked to go with a 21" monitor but I would have had to spend literally more than double what I paid for the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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Well, I proved it worked today. I'm still getting the system up and running (have to look for another sound card - SB Live! didn't like my system and I don't have the patience to deal with it) but preliminary benchmarks show it to be running at (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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