Intel Celeron 800MHz CPU

Unfortunately your current board will not support the new generation of CPUs including the Celeron 800 and AMD Duron/Athlon. I believe you are mistaken when talking about your celeron being a "superior architecture." In fact, Intel's newest celeron (800) is a good 30% slower than AMD's fastest Duron offering for double the money. If you are looking for a cheap upgrade, I would suggest purchasing the new generation of AMD's K6-3 or K6-2. They go up to around 500MHz and can be bought for around 50-60 bucks. These will work on your motherboard and significantly speed you up. Otherwise I would say get a new AMD motherboard and a duron or athlon.

Jon
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Get a K6-3+ @ 500mhz

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No Celeron processors fit your motherboard. In fact, no Intel processors faster than the 233MMX will fit. But you can use an AMD processor. If your computer is really htat slow you probably have the 66MHz bus speed version of the K6-2. Even the 300/100 was about 15% faster. You can get a K6-2 550 to work or a K6-III+ 450 to work. I suspect that either one would perform about equally for your task, and would be at least twice as fast (actual CPU performance might be 3X as fast). You must also remember that whenever you work with fiels that big, a majority of the information may be left on the hard drive, which is much slower than RAM. So I would suggest a newer, faster hard drive and either of the processors mentioned.

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