Upgrading woes.....please advise (I do not need tech support,just opinions)

[oblivion]

I have a chance to get in a trade a brand new athlon 700 retail among other things as well...........if you have noticed my posts lately I have a very nice 533a@920Mhz right now and it is doing me fine.............

But I could sell my celeron II for the amount of loot it would take to get a very nice athlon MB and maybe a goldfingers too.

Then I would have to buy an alpha that fits the asusK7(I am thinking asus),and maybe even buy a goldfingers too.....

Should I bother with the upgrade?

I am guessing I could get 180$ for my chip,as it OCs very well and they are pretty hard to find now............I could get 25$ for my alpha PAL and around 100$ for my abit bf-6.........it is a tough call for me....the song of an athlon 700 .18 sounds very sweet to mine ears right now....I am thinking I could hit near 1000Mhz with the cache at 1/3,buy everything I need,and still have a little cheddar left over.......

what would you do?

[Apostle 83]

I'd go for it.
Even without oc'in, youd see a performance improve, the celery ii oc's nicely but its 66mhz bus doesn't give the processor much bandwidth... limits the whole system.


Go for it man.

[rrick31]

yes i would go for it also,if you have a buyer for celey.thats what i tend to do myself sell it or give to mom&dad and having the fast fsb that is hard to pass up.you go dude.

[oblivion]

Well I am running it at 115fsb right now.....................but the DDR fsb of the athlon is temting a anything can be

[alan]

DO IT
ALAN

[alpha]

I'd stick with the CII, but then again, I'd also be worried that the core would break http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[Brangwen]

Man, I'm gone from this BBS for a month, and I don't know what a Celeron II is! Regardless, I'd choose the Athlon mainly due to the relatively small Celery cache.

Brangwen http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif