What's my best choice for upgrading a BE6 machine?

[dapic]

Hi, there,

I'm currently running a Celeron 366@550 on a BE6 with 128 PNY PC100 ECC CAS 2-3-2 (I believe), Rage Fury 32MB AGP, WD 15G + WD 20G, SB Live! Value. What's my best choice for a moderate upgrade?

A Celeron II or a P3?

Also, I am also building a new Duron/KT7-RAID box and bought 2 128MB Kingmax PC150 SDRAMs, guess I could swap the RAMs between the 2 boxes?

Thanks,

 

[Dark4ng3l]

probably a celeron 2(I must warn you they are slow) a celeron2 o/c to 850 is slower than a 733eb in most benchmarks. The bx chipset does not support 1/2 agp divider so 133fsb wil run agp out of spec. most 633 celemines hit 950. You caould also get a 700e(p3) and o/c it to 933-1 gig but this wil run agp out of spec. Buy the p3 only if you know your vid card can take the out of spec agp bus.

 

[dapic]

Thank you, Dark 4ng3l,

I know those new Celerons are slow, that's why I'm considering P3. But I didn't realize the AGP bus issue.

If I should get another Vid card, should I get another agp, making sure it can handle the clock speed or just a PCI? Any recommendation?

 

[Stallion]

I have a BE6 and I just upgraded to a 700E. My Corsair PC100 would do 133fsb at CAS3 and my Diamond TNT2 ultra would do it also but it wouldn't play UT at that speed. I eventually got some Mushkin PC133 and a Geforce2 GTS and it is smooth as silk now and stable at 933mhz at default voltage.

There is a setting for 124FSB and 1/4 PCI to keep your PCI slots at 31mhz(close to 33) and you AGP would be at 82mhz (2/3 setting) which is a little high but it just might do it. Mine did.

You could try 120FSB but then your only PCI devider is 1/3 which puts your HDD and PCI cards at 40mhz which is a little high. My Western Digitals and MX300 did 40MHZ with no side effects.

If all else fails 115FSB will work great and will give you an overclock of 805MHZ and all your cards and HDD will be close to stock specs.

Then again 700MHZ is plenty fast also.

 

[OuranosEXX]

go ron an 700e with an asus slocket. it the best price/perfomance solution at this point and its easily o/c. my agp is running at 93Mhz! lol and its going great!!!