Hey all
Well this is my prob see... I have a brand new P3-800e (100 MHz bus) and it runs great on my trusty ABIT BX6-r2. In fact it is great. I just bought it to replace my aging P3 450 on the same board. So I just upgraded the CPU and absolutely nothing else. Here is the prob. I thought for sure that I would see a stunning difference between what I had running on WIN ME then and what I have now. But NONE.. the visible improvement is minor.. I don't care what benchmarks tell me. So I went over to my friend's house and booted his computers (2 of them.. one 733e and one Tbird 850) to check out for a comparison. ALL FEEL FASTER.. in the way they load programs.. the way WIN ME boots... everything in general. So I pose one question. The only difference with my system and those 2 is that I have a 5400 RPM 12 GIG UDMA-33 Quantum drive and they all have MAXTORS D-PLUS 40 GIG drives (7200 RPM 2 meg cache ATA-66). SOOOOOO ... is it possible that a drive can make that much difference?? Honestly??? I know that the grass on the other side is always greener but man.. those systems just zip compared to mine and no I was not drunk, stoned or envious at the time!! And the 733 should be slower although 133 bus and the AMD... well somewhere close but is wayyyyyyyy faster... so if I overclock (which my 800 does rather nicely to 900 or so... 896 at 112.. afraid of going higher... but 117 is still great at 936) it still "feels" much slower than the others even though the benchmarks are faster which is crap!
So should I keep overclocking even higher (for some reason I sweat at work thinking of what the OC is doing to my rig at home) or get a faster drive.
Use it for games... and audio and video editing... and for cup holder and keeps my room warm in the winter.
P3-800e (100 MHz)(not OC'ed but thinking about it)
Abit BX6-r2
Hyundia 256 PC33 RAM (2 X 128)
Quantum EX 12 GIG 5400 RPM UDMA 33)
CL GeForce PRO DDR
3Com 10/100 NIC
Yamaha 192 Digital PCI soundcard (best ever imo..)
300 WATT PS.
thanks
One last thing.. if I OC.. how long before complete meltdown.. I mean how long can i expect my system to last..? I have read and studied all about electro-migration and all.. so not sure.. let me know.
Well this is my prob see... I have a brand new P3-800e (100 MHz bus) and it runs great on my trusty ABIT BX6-r2. In fact it is great. I just bought it to replace my aging P3 450 on the same board. So I just upgraded the CPU and absolutely nothing else. Here is the prob. I thought for sure that I would see a stunning difference between what I had running on WIN ME then and what I have now. But NONE.. the visible improvement is minor.. I don't care what benchmarks tell me. So I went over to my friend's house and booted his computers (2 of them.. one 733e and one Tbird 850) to check out for a comparison. ALL FEEL FASTER.. in the way they load programs.. the way WIN ME boots... everything in general. So I pose one question. The only difference with my system and those 2 is that I have a 5400 RPM 12 GIG UDMA-33 Quantum drive and they all have MAXTORS D-PLUS 40 GIG drives (7200 RPM 2 meg cache ATA-66). SOOOOOO ... is it possible that a drive can make that much difference?? Honestly??? I know that the grass on the other side is always greener but man.. those systems just zip compared to mine and no I was not drunk, stoned or envious at the time!! And the 733 should be slower although 133 bus and the AMD... well somewhere close but is wayyyyyyyy faster... so if I overclock (which my 800 does rather nicely to 900 or so... 896 at 112.. afraid of going higher... but 117 is still great at 936) it still "feels" much slower than the others even though the benchmarks are faster which is crap!
So should I keep overclocking even higher (for some reason I sweat at work thinking of what the OC is doing to my rig at home) or get a faster drive.
Use it for games... and audio and video editing... and for cup holder and keeps my room warm in the winter.
P3-800e (100 MHz)(not OC'ed but thinking about it)
Abit BX6-r2
Hyundia 256 PC33 RAM (2 X 128)
Quantum EX 12 GIG 5400 RPM UDMA 33)
CL GeForce PRO DDR
3Com 10/100 NIC
Yamaha 192 Digital PCI soundcard (best ever imo..)
300 WATT PS.
thanks
One last thing.. if I OC.. how long before complete meltdown.. I mean how long can i expect my system to last..? I have read and studied all about electro-migration and all.. so not sure.. let me know.
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