please advise: upgrade options for a 440bx board

[krays]

I'm one of those with a soyo 440bx board running an overclocked celeron. it's got a slot 1, but I'm using that MSI slocket thing where you can attach a socket style cpu to it and insert it into the slot1. right now it's running a 366@550. I'm pretty tempted to just go out there and shell out a mere $20-$30 for a higher mhz celeron. but I remember that the "new" celeron IIs won't run on my system, or is that just wrong?

Question is, if I wanted to go out there and buy a new cpu for under $50 or even less, what is the fastest cpu I could get now? Or should I even get one at all? I've been telling myself to upgrade, and even though I'm a gamer (any kind of game really), I'm a poor student gamer. So now I've told myself to only upgrade when I come across a "must-play" game that I cannot run reasonably anymore....but that game has not come yet.

But the upgrade itch is there, because now I have to run all the latest games on all the lowest settings...oh I forgot to say that I'm open to overclocking options too.

ive got a:

celeron 366@550
256mb pc133 ram
ultra tnt 2

...thanks!

 

[KingofBladez]

You should be able to run the new Celerons, Im running one on an Abit 440BX with no probs.
If I were you Id get a 600mhz Cel2 and oc it to 1g, and buy yourself a new vid card, that should hold you for a few months

 

[Amused]

<< I'm one of those with a soyo 440bx board running an overclocked celeron. it's got a slot 1, but I'm using that MSI slocket thing where you can attach a socket style cpu to it and insert it into the slot1. right now it's running a 366@550. I'm pretty tempted to just go out there and shell out a mere $20-$30 for a higher mhz celeron. but I remember that the "new" celeron IIs won't run on my system, or is that just wrong?

Question is, if I wanted to go out there and buy a new cpu for under $50 or even less, what is the fastest cpu I could get now? Or should I even get one at all? I've been telling myself to upgrade, and even though I'm a gamer (any kind of game really), I'm a poor student gamer. So now I've told myself to only upgrade when I come across a "must-play" game that I cannot run reasonably anymore....but that game has not come yet.

But the upgrade itch is there, because now I have to run all the latest games on all the lowest settings...oh I forgot to say that I'm open to overclocking options too.

ive got a:

celeron 366@550
256mb pc133 ram
ultra tnt 2

...thanks! >>



I've got a Dell with an Intel reference 440BX mobo. I was able to get a slot 1 PIII 1GHz 100FSB to run in this.

You can find these 100FSB oddities at googlegear.com for $212

link

 

[BigFatCow]

alot of people on the dell support forums have upgraded to the pIII slot1 100mhz fsb....

 

[krays]

Thanks for the suggestions, but $200 for a p3 1ghz is bit outta my price range for now. I'm really only looking for an interim upgrade, so it'd be something along the lines of the c2. Are the C2s in the socket 370 form factor? Like I mentioned, Ive got a slot 1 bx board with a MSI slocket...I dont remember which version it is, but it's the one that works with the celeron 366 if that helps heehe.

So am I able to run any flavor of Celeron 2 with the slocket?

 

[Athlon4all]

I see you're using a Celery 366 right? So it's PPGA. U may need to buy a new Slotket because C2's are Socket 370, but use the FC-PGA package and Slotket's can only be compatible with PPGA or FC-PGA. But yeah, C2's should work fine in a FC-PGA slotket.

P.S. Frankley. a slightly faster Celeron isn't going to make Games faster, what u really need is a new vid card. For $70 a Radeon LE can be had, and when oced (To 183/183 core/mem clock and with a registry hack enabling HyperZ in D3D, it performs like the $130-140 Radeon DDR. I personally think that would be better than getting a new CPU. It should when oced and all, have suistanable frame rates at 1024x768x16.

 

[krays]

hmm, regarding the slocket, how much would one of those cost?

As for the vid card, I was considering that as well...but would the video card be limited by the speed of my cpu when it all comes down to it?

 

[TheOverlord]

a new slotket will only cost bout 10-15 bucks...check the FS/FT forum, thats wher ei got mine...

i'd also recommend getting a radeon LE and o'cing first...see if the performance if enough fo what you need...if not then just pick up another cheap celery2 or lowend p3