Dual celery's at 800, or single PIII 850, 100FBS???

[DBD100]

Running on an old, but damn stable IWILL DBD100

Its a dual intel supporting 800, 850 with bios flash.. situation is now that the old seccII's are disappearing fast so i'm planning on getting the last of the 850 100Mhz FBS's in my area. But i also have the option of dual celery's. Flip-chip/seccII ain't a problem as i can get my hands on some good slockets. Am not really looking for a special week chip/mad overclocked setup but really a more stable approach to an old board as my new comp am building at the moment will have the money spent on it.

So what in your opinions would be better setup?

Single 850 PIII, or dual celerys?

Running
Dual PIII 450
Win 2k prof
256meg SDRAM 100Mhz
IBM DTLA 307045 7200rpm
IBM 10.1gig Deskstar
Diamond TNT2
Promise ULTRA 100 ATA
Orchid Nusound

Cheers,
DBD100

[engjohn]

the celeron2 will NOT work in SMP mode. It was disabled by intel. So the best you can do is 1 Cele or 2 P/// 850's...

[Phil]

engjohn is right, the celeron2 doesn't work in smp, also just because the board says 2maximum supported" doesn't mean faster chips won't work. Intel chips have locked multiplyers so as long as the board supports the microcode and bus speed any intel chip will run on it, is this boards a bx chipset? if it is then it might have a 133mhz fsb (the agp bus will be overclocked but almost all nvida chips from the tnt2 onwards are ok) in which case I recomend a p3 700 and overclocking it to 933mhz.
If it doesn't then I would say that this system is not really worth upgrading, I would stick with the dual 450's until you can afford to buy a new system

[DBD100]

Cheers guys. never knew about the celery II's being locked! damn rusty! :)

yeah its a BX, FSB can run at 100/112/133 I don't really like to clock the FSB to 133 as i've had prob's in the past but that was with a few generic cards. Blue sparks and smoke ;)

But If i change to 133 my PCI bridge will be clocked up and am kind of curious to if the PCI ultra promise ata 100 will be alright. I've got my main h/disk running of this. Any knowledge if they can handle it? cheers again... al