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Time to upgrade (replace) my old reliable P2-400

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TheBull

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Hi all:

Thanks"Old reliable" is turning into "Old UNreliable". I'm in need a new MB/CPU and sound. I'll be up front and say that I'm not a big fan AMD and VIA products. Now don't get tense, I'm not starting any arguments. I'm just more comfortable with Intel CPUs. Now just to be fair, I hated the Coppermine P3's just as much. Hence, why I still have the P2.

I don't really want a P4 until the 533 FSB bus is released, but I'll assume the price at that time would be too high. I don't know much about overclocking, primarily due to my current MSI-6119 MB. I do work from home a lot, so I stability would be my major concern.

I'm looking at the newer P3 Tualatin CPUs @ 1.26+ and I'll bet these can run with a P4 up to about 1.8 Ghz or so. However, I'm not sure that this is a cost-effective purchase. I use a cable modem; so on-board LAN would be nice. The 815 chipset looks promising, but I develop with Oracle and SQL Server so the 512 MB RAM limit might be a problem, but I don't think so.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to what may work for me?

Current System: Quantex P2-400, Deskstar GXP60 40GB & WD3400 8.4GB, ATI Radeon LE (OC'ed for games), 256 RAM, Esoniq 1371 Sound card, dual boot W98 (games) and W2K (everything else).
 
There was no reason to not like the Coppermine IMHO. I run a PIII-S 1.26 overclocked to 1.5 Ghz on an 815 board. Its a very nice, fast, stable cool running system. Yes, mine is up there with a P4 1.8 - 2.0 depending on what benchmark. These days, its not the best value out there. You will get more bang for the buck with a Northwood setup. The new Celerons are also very good values. They are also Tualatin and now have 256K cache. Only drawback is a 100 MHz bus speed unless you overclock.
 
I had 2 Gateway 800Es at work and they never seemed to offer any better performance than my P2. Several friends have an P3@900+ and it just didn't seem like an imporvement. The Gateway system as a whole was most likely the why everything seems so slow, but I can't reconfigure the work systems.


 
I have a socket PIII 1ghz and an Asus CUSL2-C mobo. It performs great and is really reliable. Some dude in the sale forum is offering the same mobo for sale and an 800mhz processor. The combo I have has been fine and I do a lot of 3d gaming and am only using a GF2 GTS.
 
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