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Re: Overclocking Celeron 300a to 450
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Sun, 18 Oct 1998 03:32:35 GMT
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I'm not sure about most of this..but there *is* a little tool that uses a
modular
line to make a printer connection...they use them at work....
I can't remember the name off-hand, but It converts
parallel ->modular ->parallel so you don't have to worry about sticking
those big Parallel cables through a wall or anything....
Eggy
Mike Stanley wrote in message ...
>
> 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 least as fast as my P2-400 at
> work.
>
> At $171 for the retail boxed processor and $105 for the Abit BH6
> 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.
>
> Putting it all in a GIGANTIC ATX tower case - more room than I've ever
> seen. I need to order a few fans from PC Power & Cooling to ensure
> good airflow and temp, though.
>
> And yeah, I'm rambling, but I've had a lot of fun with this system and
> this is off-topic.fun after all.
>
> 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.
>
> On another front, I'm wanting to move our computers our of our current
> computer room for two reasons. 1) I need the room for Lego stuff -
> stuff that is taking up room in both our living and dining rooms. 2)
> Heat - that room gets pretty darn hot in the summer and stays warm in
> the winter even with the window open.
>
> I don't want my ISDN TA and my three printers to be vulnerable to our
> cats (I love them but I can't have them screwing that stuff up), so I
> want to leave those in the current room while moving our computers out
> to another room.
>
> Only problem is, I will need to have some way to print to all 3 of our
> printers from the computers in the other rooms. The only ways *I*
> know to do that are to hang a 3-4 port print server box off my hub or
> to put together a cheap system to run as the print server. Actually,
> the computer option is the better one because I can have it run
> Wingate as well and pass the net stuff along to the other rooms.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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| (...) Thanks for the info, but the only cable I'll be running down the hall (and then under the door) is a nice thin cat 5 cable that will run to the printing/isdn machine. I need to find some nice tubing or something to run it through, though, (...) (26 years ago, 18-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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