Worth upgrading to a 900 celery for $70?

[LordJezo]

My motherboard can support up to a 900 MHZ celeron with a bit of tweaking and a new slocket. Think it is worth it to go from a 466 to a 900 for so little? My only other upgrading option is to scrap the machine and build from scratch which would cost a whole lot more...

 

[oldfart]

Should be a nice upgrade from the C466. BTW, if your board supports a C900, it also supports a C1000, C1100. If your mobo supports overclocking, set the FSB for 112 to boost it up a bit.

 

[Mitzi]

For the price of a good night out you can double your processing power? DO IT!

 

[Migroo]

Yes definately.

Upgrades are NOT cheap. Normally to get that level of performance upgrade, you'd have to upgrade the motherboard aswell (which miglt also entail a RAM upgrade too).

For $70, thats awesome. Go for it!

 

[SleepyGuy]

yeah go for a cpu and ram upgrade... so damn cheap nowadays for the performance... I remember when my bro upgraded his 286 w/.5 mb of memory for $286!!! damn those were the days!

 

[Athlon4all]

Go ahead, that should be a nice upgrade.

 

[WA261]

actually seems a little high ($) to upgrade....you can pick up a chip for around 30 and a slocket for like 15....look around at the for sale forums....

even if you had to stick with the $70, the upgrade would still be worth it...

 

[GregMal]

How long is this upgrade gonna last you? I've also got a Celeron 466 but I'm
waiting until about Feb 02. Then I'm spending a little more and getting a new
MB with Celeron 1.2 Tualatin and hope it lasts me a year or more............greg