440 BX??

[krohnm]

I've been wanting to make myself a celeron system... but I've been wondering something...

most of the celeron boards I've been looking at say BX.. when I was pricing PC100 DIMMs a while back, I saw BX DIMMs... right now I'm using an FIC 503+ board using PC100 memory... would I have to buy new RAM if I wanted to build a celeron system??

[Bleeding Edge]

No. Intel's BX chipsets that are implamented on these boards use the PC100 dimms. I've never heard of 100Mhz dimms being refered to as "BX dimms". I understand the reference but it's an unusual phrase.

Perhaps some kinda sales point?

[krohnm]

must of just been a sales thing... I was going through the listing at pricewatch.com, and just saw different listings said BX... but ok.. the RAM I've got now will work.. so I'll go ahead and buy another 64Mb DIMM.. I was just wondering about that, since I'm wanting to switch over to a Celeron sometime soon...

any idea if the K7's will drop the price of Intel chips??

[Bleeding Edge]

Make sure you get the same type of dimm. Not the same capacity but the same voltage, ECC or non-Ecc, ..that kinda thing.

Competitive pricing is the rule of thumb. Intel, however,
seems to have (or set) their own schedule for price cuts. Regardless of what AMD does. I'm only saying it seems that way. I haven't and have no desire to analyze such things. Pricewatch, Pricescan http://www.pricescan.com/0101.asp , and Sharky's weekly cpu prices http://www.sharkyextreme.com/ are good enough.