Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: Fox5
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
I miss the line of intel processors called the "overdrive" line where they took newer technology pentiums and gave older boards a boost in performance, close to that of new systems.. It would have been nice though had intel continued with this and had done a better job of making themselves useful.. I mean it would have be really nice to see a 486 based board with clock speeds in the 300MHZ range at least and Pentium boards with clock speeds in the 700mhz to 1GHZ clock range, maybe even higher, no real reason WHY they couldn't have done this..
Considering how often performance is tied to chipset and memory performance (as well as video card), there's little point. There's no reason to take an SDR system and try to outfit it with a 3ghz processor, or even an i845 that only supports up to PC2100 single channel. And there's no reason to keep a PCI system around when all good cards are AGP (or now PCI express).
Not everyone games you know... I think if you could outfit a 486 with a 300MHZ processor or anything faster, it would make the machine sufficient for what most people do, daily browsing, word etc... It would also make a killer F@H machine!
Problem with powerleap is the fact that they're limited to what intel offers and so a system with a 66mhz FSB is not allowed to get a 1ghz+ processor because intel has not released a processor that would be compatible with their socket adapters and has a high enough multiplier

Imagine doing a performance benchmark on a PII 66FSB With the LX chipset, and sticking in a 2GHZ processor! Sure it wouldn't be as fast as the modern systems but it would certainly kick a lot of ass and would be an awesome upgrade!