PII 266 vs. PII350

[Cawchy87]

will the speed up to a 350 be even noticeable? i can get one for about 5 bucks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

IIRC the 350 was the first 100mhz bus speed chip. Not sure how applicable that is, I went from like a 233 to a 550.

 

[Regs]

P3's were much better performers than the P2's.

 

[Cawchy87]

it is still a pII tho

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Cawchy87
it is still a pII tho

Oh, I thought I saw PIII. But for 5 bucks, that's one less trip to McDonolds for an upgrade.

 

[SonicIce]

its worth at least 10 fps

 

[3chordcharlie]

yeah... 266 is slow, and 350 won't stumble on MSWord... it's a pretty big increase increase.

 

[Sonix7]

do they still manage the same FSB? if not, either way it 's worth to pay 5 bucks more

 

[Cawchy87]

apparently it isn't compatable with my mobo oh well i should have an 800mhz duron finished before july and the start oh school

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: Cawchy87
it is still a pII tho

Oh, I thought I saw PIII. But for 5 bucks, that's one less trip to McDonolds for an upgrade.

I'd pay $5 to not have to eat at McDonalds

 

[Paperlantern]

800MHz duron wont be much better than the PII 350... Duron is like celeron, if your gaming, dont get duron! hell if your doing anything dont get duron

 

[Troubadour]

Do you have a 440LX or something?

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
800MHz duron wont be much better than the PII 350... Duron is like celeron, if your gaming, dont get duron! hell if your doing anything dont get duron

An 800 Mhz Duron would trounce a PII 350 in every benchmark. Hell an 800 Mhz Celeron would trounce a PII 350.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
800MHz duron wont be much better than the PII 350... Duron is like celeron, if your gaming, dont get duron! hell if your doing anything dont get duron

Don't spew BS please.
A Duron, while not as powerful as an Athlon, is far superior to a Celeron, and well easily beat the P2 at any benchmark you'll throw at it.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
800MHz duron wont be much better than the PII 350... Duron is like celeron, if your gaming, dont get duron! hell if your doing anything dont get duron

Don't spew BS please.
A Duron, while not as powerful as an Athlon, is far superior to a Celeron, and well easily beat the P2 at any benchmark you'll throw at it.

Duron == pretty awesome budget processor. The only thing that ever hurt the Duron was the fact that it was always too clode in price to a low end athlon

 

[0roo0roo]

heh no kidding, any 59 dollar bundle cpu+mb could run circles either of those two cpu's. but since he got it for 5, can't complain.

still, at that speed, every mhz counts. difference between mind numbingly slow to just slow.

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: Regs
P3's were much better performers than the P2's.

No, they weren't. The only difference between the cores of a PIII and a PII is SSE instructions, and since the PIII came later, they ramped it to higher clock speeds.

In fact, in order to have this higher clock capability, the original PIIIs came with the cache running at 1/3 the CPU clock, while PIIs ran it at half the CPU clock, AND the L2 on a PIII had additional latency, so at the same clock speed, a PII is faster than a PIII.


As someone mentioned above, the 350 is made for 3.5 * 100MHz bus, the 266 is 4 * 66MHz.

If your motherboard is an FX or LX, it probably doesn't support bus speeds above 66MHz, and the 350MHz chip will be underclocked to 233MHz on the board.

 

[Paperlantern]

i really was talking about everyday usages, just basic day to day stuff, not benchmarking, you put a PII350, and a duron 800 side by side, you wouldnt see but a hair more speed on the duron 800

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
i really was talking about everyday usages, just basic day to day stuff, not benchmarking, you put a PII350, and a duron 800 side by side, you wouldnt see but a hair more speed on the duron 800

Sure you will. You'll see huge differences in boot up time, application load time, and general multitaksing. All of which are normal uses of a computer.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
i really was talking about everyday usages, just basic day to day stuff, not benchmarking, you put a PII350, and a duron 800 side by side, you wouldnt see but a hair more speed on the duron 800

basic day to day stuff as in what? leaving it idle 100% of the time. to start, an 800mhz Duron will boot about twice as fast. Every game ever made with any sense of 3D will run a hell of a lot better. Programs open quicker, the CPU can generally handle more than one thing at a time without lagging to hell. IE ... on a 350, it's kinda hard to watch a DVD and browse the web at the same time as the DVD will be very near to 90 to 100% CPU utiluzation. Where as on a Celeron 800, a DVD is closer to 30 or 40 % CPU utilization (of course the screen resolution used will have a pretty big impact on this too).

 

[sao123]

you can make a P2 350 into a smoking machine (i had one) if you run your hard drives off a ata 133 or card instead of the onboard ide's.

P2 350 100Mhz bus.
PC 100 SDRAM
440BX mobo.
Maxtor ata 133 card.
7200 RPM ata 133 Maxtor HDD.

 

[0roo0roo]

your hd never reaches 133mbs though. didn't p2's have atleast at33? ur not likely to see a dif if its ata33.

 

[bluemax]

PII-266 = 66FSB
PII-350 = 100FSB

If you have a BX chipset, there will be a somewhat noticable difference. Not worth any money, but if it drops in your lap, it's worth doing.

If you don't have a BX chipset it won't work.

 

[dheffer]

rock it if you have an bx board, otherwise make sure youre not wasting the $5
definitely an upgrade though

 

[sao123]

to go from ata 33 (p2 onboard) to a ata 100/133...makes 1000x difference.