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C3 600 MHz (Cyrix), A significant upgrade from a P 233 MMX?

jacktesterson

jacktesterson

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Just looking to give an old PC (my dads) a little boost for Internet, Office Apps and CD-Burning (he has HP 9100 series, 8x-4x-32x). A Via motherboard with Onboard video sound and lan with a C3 600 MHz processor was offered at $100 + tx Canadian new. (about $67 US)

Is it a significant upgrade?
 
yes.. it would be a lot faster..

however, it would be obsolete as soon as you bought it tho.. perhaps spending a bit more to get a duron based system (probably 2.5x faster over the C3) would be a better bet.

Still, it is quite a significant upgrade from a pentium 233.
 
How much faster than a P 233 would it be? What to a Intel based bored may it be compared to when it comes to performance?
 
I don't know about Canada, but at Computer Geeks you can get a Kyro 32MB (just as fast as the 64MB version) for $29 shipped. Go to newegg.com and get a refurbished socket A board for $31 shipped. Go to tcwo.com and get a Morgan 1.2GHz for $41 shipped. For $100 you get a minimum system that can actually play modern games and and is more than fast enough for desktop apps. If Canada doesn't have anything comparable, then pehaps find someone on the forums that lives in a Northern state close to your location and have them order, and then pay for the shipping to your house. I couldn't even give a guestimate of the performance boost over the P233, it would be astronomical.
 
Is your dad's old pentium's board and powersupply the old AT or ATX? if it's AT then you will need to buy a new powersupply and case as well.
 
I think it would be a significant upgrade. A VIA C3 600 is approximately an equivalent of a Pentium II - 350-400 in office apps, and thus should provide a noticeable performance increase.
 
and remember, a pentium2 233 is significantly faster than a p233mmx. you will definitely notice the upgrade to the cyrix. However, if you want to stick with the same motherboard for now, how high did AMD K6-2 and K6-3's go?
 
you can overclock some k6-2s to 600 mhz, but you need a _super_ socket 7 mb (supports lower core voltage).
k6-2+ and k6-3 are the cream of the crop (integrated L2 cache), but they're disproportionately expensive.
 
I used a Via C3 1G recently and it was fairly nifty in Business/internet stuff. I even benched it in Sandra and strangely it reported it to be at around 600 speeds. Definitely not good for gaming.
 
please dont buy a cyrix. i've had experience with two fo their chips, and what miserable experience it was.....
please, please, please.....just get a new barebones system (150-200) with an amd or intel chip. doesnt even really matter if you wanna get a celeron (though durons offer better perf. at a lower price).
the biggest mistake you can make in buying computer parts (assuming your not an enthusiast who regularly forks over inordinate amoutns of cash for the latest and greatest) is to buy equipment to suit your needs for today. buy something that will minimally run future software as well so that you are not constantly cursing your system for being slow, incompatible, and incapable. nothing in the computer market stays current for very long, but if you buy a c3 600, which has been obsolete for a while, your buying WAY behind the curve. durons or socket a athlon tbirds will give you the best price/performance ratio i can imagine right now (maybe even an xp 1600+ since they are ultra cheap right now).
anyway, to summarize: spend a lil more and do a major system upgrade so that your dad can truly function even with tomorrow's apps..who knows, he may even try playing mp3s and whatnot 🙂
 
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