Stick with my Bx6-2 or upgrade?

[Trader05]

Is there any boards out there that are worth my time of upgrading? I'm running a celeron 600@1ghz with no problems. I really don't know what's good now-a-days with all of the chipsets from Intel. I don't want VIA at all. Any suggestions?

 

[xtreme2k]

keep it for now, get Tbird with KT133A or 266 later on

no point really upgrading to P3

 

[jd in IL]

Below are Wintune results. Same components, just a MB swap from a BX6r2 to a KT7Raid. BX6r2 went to the boy with a Geforce II MX for games, his 250MMX with Voodoo II was getting a little slow for the new games. You be the judge, yes it's a little faster, but worth the hastle?



CPU (1) Intel Pentium III@803 MHz
Video Board 3dfx Voodoo3
Video Mode 1024x768@16bits/pixel
RAM 256 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.2222 A

Area Tested Value
CPU Integer 2364.292 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 921.6592 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 178.1591 MPixels/s
Direct3D 179.8939 MPixels/s
OpenGL 88.28784 MPixels/s
Memory 1683.887 MB/s
Cached Disk 146.1744 MB/s
Uncached Disk 4.22543 MB/s


CPU (1) AMD Athlon@1001 MHz
Video Board 3dfx Voodoo3
Video Mode 1024x768@16bits/pixel
RAM 256 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.2222 A

Area Tested Value
CPU Integer 3051.533 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 1255.979 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 194.3965 MPixels/s
Direct3D 181.1785 MPixels/s
OpenGL 92.79697 MPixels/s
Memory 2536.001 MB/s
Cached Disk 150.925 MB/s
Uncached Disk 5.593028 MB/s

 

[Trader05]

Here's my stats:
CPU (1) Intel Celeron@902 MHz
Video Board NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
Video Mode 800x600@32bits/pixel
RAM 256 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.2222 A

Area Tested Value
CPU Integer 2542.869 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 1044.321 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 85.40401 MPixels/s
Direct3D 213.6148 MPixels/s
OpenGL 179.2514 MPixels/s
Memory 1752.908 MB/s
Cached Disk 92.95601 MB/s
Uncached Disk 3.365163 MB/s


I'm running at 900 now, it's a little more stabler..

 

[jd in IL]

Being in that position I would keep it like it is, and wait till 1Q 2001 or so to see what's availible. It is far from being low end yet.

 

[cmaMath13]

Since you are running at 1Ghz, I would not upgrade right now. I would wait until you can buy at least 1.5GHz of procesor (whether with overclock or default). You want to get at least a 50% cpu speed increase, unless you have $$ to burn.

 

[Trader05]

i was thinkin board wise, i love my celeron, it's doing me good

 

[MSNY]

I have a BX6-R2 and was considering a change also...but...

After thinking about it somemore and some advice I got in the forums here I'm waiting until the leap is wider in terms of real performance gains. I would suspect good timing would be about mid-year when both AMD and Intel decide to go beyond 1.5 gig both and chipset makers get a little bit more stability going.

My 2 cents

My Rig specs link

 

[Trader05]

Looks like that's what i'm gonna do