Much of a difference from a cely 366 to a pent 3 700?

[BadNewsBears]

I , as everyone else in the world, am in the gray area of deciding upon the best upgrade from my gigabyte bx 2000 running a celeron 366 at stock speed. I would appreciate an educated opinion as to how much of a difference will I notice going to a pentium 3 700 or 850 100mhz fsb run at stock speeds. Another option is the celery 633 mildly overclocked. We play games and net surf along with some photo editing. Is the switch going to rock or just be so-so?? I have 128 meg pc 100 mushkin mem and a voodoo 3 2000 agp video card. Will the card go crazy if I up the fsb? I really appreciate any help and info you can give me.

 

[jsbush]

The upgrade will be AMAZING! You will see a really HUGE performence gain. You could also overclock the 366, I heard they overclocked nicely to 550mhz (100mhz FSB)

 

[White Widow]

Going from a C366 to Pentium 3 at 700MHz or 800MHz will be a huge improvement in speed, especially in gaming. I don't know how frugal you want to be, but since your needs don't seem too high end, I would recommend getting the P3-700. Use the difference in price to get another 128MB of RAM. That will make a difference with the gaming and the general performance of your computer, especially with newest and upcoming OS's. While it's not essential, the price of RAM right now is too good to pass up. You can geta stick of 128MB Crucial PC100 CAS 2 for like $50, or some generic stuff for around $40.00. That combined with the P3 700 should last for quite a while. I would really stay away from the Celeron, especially if your not going to run the FSB at 100MHz. It's a really hampered chip. As for the Voodoo3, I have heard that it is a very stable board that can take all sorts of overclocking stress.

-Aaron

 

[dragingmyfeet]

let me say this -i had the celery 366 pentium 2 and upgraded to the pentium 3 700 and don't see that much of a difference,i had the 700 up to 933 and still didn't see any difference ,then again i don't play games so i don't know if that matters.

 

[White Widow]

Well, net surfiing is obviously a less CPU-intensive activity. It would be foolish to purchase a P3-700 over a C366 if all you do is brows the internet and exchange email. But any sort of photo editing and/or gaming will exhibit significan performance improvements when you go from a Celeron 366MHz on a 66MHz FSB to a Pentium 3 700MHz on a 100MHz bus.

-Aaron

 

[jsbush]

"celery 366 pentium 2"

Humm, I think you got something wrong here

 

[dragingmyfeet]

well a 366 /66 bus speed -OK- still didn't see a difference,but like i said (I DON,T PLAY GAMES) i use the computer for work and the internet. am i suppose to see a difference !!!doing that?

 

[dennilfloss]

jsbush,

The Mendocino Celeron is officially a class of pentium 2.

 

[jsbush]

Really, I have never seen it refered to as a Celeron Pentium 2. Oh and I knew what you ment


Edit: Back to this guys question, lets not side track.

dragingmyfeet You should of seen a huge difference in boot speed, the speed of your apps booting up etc. I see a difference in my P3 450 and my Duron 600@1000mhz only in web browsing. Cached webpages load faster and smother. So my guess is you should see a really big difference. Did you format your hard drive when you changed your cpu?

 

[jeremy806]

It will just be so-so. A lot of people talk about the huge difference in performance when upgrading a processor. It's all in what you do with your computer.

In first person shooter games, like Q3A, UT, there will be a huge performance increase. If you do video editing and encoding, another area with a big performance increase. But for general surfing, email, etc., it won't be a big deal. So, it matters what you really do with the computer.

The P3-700 would be a nice upgrade for you, if you don't mind spending the money. In addition, that 700 will be good for a long time in your computer while the 366/66 has a limited lifespan even though it is workable for now.

Maybe list the rest of your system, and more details of what you do with it, what games you play, etc.

jeremy806

 

[BadNewsBears]

Thanks for all the response! In the everyday world of web surfing, games(my son- IGI, Delta Force Land Warrior, Rogue Spear etc.) photo editing, scanning documents, MS office apps, and other typical shtuff. Should the pentium 3 700 or 850 non-overclocked speed stuff up or in other terms, make things smoother and more reliable in a sense?? Tough to decide even though the price is not too much of a factor. Just don't want to waste time & $$$ for a minimal/medium gain of sorts.

gigabyte bx2000
celeron 366
128mb mushkin pc100
voodoo 3 2000 agp
diamond sonic impact
8.4 &10.0 WD hard drives ata66
teac cdrom
plexwriter 12/10/32

 

[White Widow]

I'm telling you: Go with the P3-700 and another 128MB stick. Everything will run smooth and efficient.

-Aaron

 

[jeremy806]

Ok. Go for it. Get the P3-700. If you don't mind a little more money, get the memory too.

jeremy806

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Celeron is belong to P2 class, same architecture as P2, even same fsb as early P2.

 

[Killrose]

Slot 1 C366's were poor overclockers, but you could run it at the 75MHz bus and see if you like a little increase in speed. The PIII 700 would be a huge improvement, especially in games, and I would think photo editing as well, surfing the net is not limited by your CPU, but your internet connection, so you won't see any improvements there. I shudder to think of running any modern games with a 366MHz cpu. As to adding more ram, I think I would put my money into a faster vid card first, but What the hell, get more ram, the PIII850 AND the vid card!!!