P3 (550 to 1g upgrade)?

If your m/b will do 133 with a 1/4 PCI divider then I'd suggest a PIII-700E which would run at 933 at a 133FSB. That should put you back about US$140 at most.

- JW

You really don't need the upgrade, but if you want one anyway, the 700 is a good deal, but if your heart is set on the 1GHz, the 133 bus chip is cheaper and performs better, assuming your motherboard supports 133FSB. What kind of motherboard do you have?

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(original poster)
My motherboard is a recent supermicro (a replacement for
one that went bad). After I set everything back up, I went
to their website to get the latest BIOS, and then I saw that
it could support a 1ghz PIII, even though this mobo only
supports 100mhz FSB. It turns out that the voltage reg
on this recent mobo is already set to go for the 1ghz,
and I have flashed the latest BIOS, and the tech supoort
at SUPERMICRO tells me that my mobo model has been tested
successfully with the 1ghz PIII (100mhz FSB). They have
these 100mzh FSB 1ghz PIII's at computergate for $276, so
I am just wondering if the extra speed would be worth it.
I am currently running a 550mhz and I really don't have
any complaints, but some of the video progs do take a
long long long time to run (avi to mpeg, recompense avi,
and so forth). If it only speeds it up a few percentages,
then I will really feel silly. If it doubled the speed,
then it might be worth it. I was just wondering if anyone
had any experience upgrading from the 500mhz range to
the 1ghz range, leaving all else as is (100mhz FSB, cas3
ram, udma33, etc.). I sort of lean toward thinking it
would be better to just go along as I am, and wait until
I really need an upgrade, and then go whole hog with
a whole new system - but, you know the bug we get with
the prospect for whizbang speed.
Littleberry

HI,
yes the SUPERMIcro boards are excellent , some fo the best we have seen to date, we have sold thousands and have been using them in our workstations since 1994..

So you should have problem using the 1 GHZ CPU.
the CPU should almost double your performance in many apps and games, video and the like.

I would say on CPU intensive stuff you speed gain should range from 50% -85% +

also disk loading times if you have ODE should improve a little, and cache fetches should be better with the new cache as well

I would get one if I were you .
enjoy the new speed my friend, at least you were smart enough to get an INTEL CPU )

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that is about normal, a little high. how is your case cooling?

HI
good man,

I told you it would be worth it,
even better than I had said over 100% faster

pentium's scale well

that is VERY cool, don't sweat it, it can goto 60 C without any worries

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