OT: System Upgrades (Processor)

[ICXRa]

Would anybody care to share their thoughts concerning this. I have a Micron Netframe Dual processor with P2-350's in it. It runs fine but I would prefer it produced more results and therefore I have been looking into cheap upgrade paths with it. I read an article over at Toms Hardware concerning powerleap upgrades that looks pretty good. I want to stick to the 100Mhz FSB since this is a Intel BX based board.

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Seems like in the long run this is the cheapest method to upgrade with since this is all I would have to purchase.

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

 

[EvilWobbles]

This could be a pretty expensive upgrade path since you'd have to buy two P3 based Powerleap adapters for your board. According to the powerleap site, the Celeron's will not run in SMP mode.

The cheapest P3 - the 850 mhz is $189.95. With two CPUs and shipping, you're looking at $400.

You can buy an AMD mobo, CPU and RAM and not even come close to $400.

My thoughts FWIW.

 

[ICXRa]

Power supply?

 

[ICXRa]

I was looking at the celery

PL-iP3/T 1.4 GHz Intel Celeron $119.95

 

[lobadobadingdong]

you could get a pair of these MSI - MS6905 slockets, they will let you run dual celerons 🙂

and a pair of non-coppermine celerons (coppermine and later celerons can't be run dualed, and they won't work in the above slockets anyway due to voltage requirements)and oc'them, if that board oc's then you could get a couple of 366 and oc them to 550, or get a pair of 533s , and oc to 800(maybe) if memory serves me right the 533 was the last celerons before the fc-pga comppermine core.

it would be much cheaper(~$60 total cost) than the powerleap option, if you don't/can't upgrade the box to a more modern mobo.

links are for reference only, the 2nd link is actually a little overpriced imo.

 

[Freewolf]

Not worth the cost if you ask me. $240.00 dollars for 2 if you can run 2 of them together and you might gets 6 Work units a day if you're lucky.
Check out the for sell/trade forum and you will get much more production for the same money.

This is a 2 gig cel.

user-1120nba.dsl.mindspring.com 3.00 3 1 7h43m 7h05m 11

 

[ICXRa]

OK thanks everybody!

 

[SlowBones]

I upgraded a Dell Optiplex P2/400 to the Powerleap $119 1.4GHz Tualatin "Celeron" and get SETI WU times around 6.5 hours. It's not a bad alternative given that it's essentially a P3 (256KB L2 cache). You could (I assume) do *one* of these. Check you BIOS, etc. for compatibility on their site.

Another idea might be to look on eBay for matched PIII 600 or 700's. They were not too expensive as I recall ($40?).

Good luck!