What to buy?

[cyberey66]

Ok, I got $80 to spend on a cpu. My chooses are;
celeron 800 or 900
celeron 1000
or try to find a used P3.

Any suggestions? I know the 800s OC really good, but I haven't heard much about the 1Ghz. Or maybe I could find a 700 or 800 P3. I could post on the clas. ads and see what offers I get.

Any experiances with those chips? Oh yea, I got a 54w peltier, is that enough for the new celeries.

[Ebola]

you really don't need a pelt for intel chips. a celly 1gig is $68. it probably has the same chance of hitting 1333 as my p3 1000e. a p3 will cost double what the celly cost. double the cache, double the price.

[cyberey66]

I guess I'll go for newegg. Heres the prices;

850-$44
900-$49
1Ghz-$70

Probally gonna get a 1000 but I'm thinking about grabbing an 850 or 900 just so I can grab a stick of 256 pc133. I have 2 64 pc100 sticks now. Probally not the best for OCing but I have -33 in my bios and I hear some people getting better results from pc100 than pc133. Any comments?

[Bond_]

Just go to 900Mhz or 1Ghz cpu's they're cheap stable very oc...

[Lancelot]

About the PC100. If you now have good quality cas222 PC100 then it will very likely do 133 @ cas333 or even 322. I installed two new Spectek 256MB cas333 PC133 DIMMs last week and it didn't get me anywhere higher than I was before with one PC100 stick in the system! So maybe you can get that CPU you really want and invest in some more RAM later on...

[cyberey66]

My rams running 2-2-2 on turbo mode, whatever turbo does. Idk, it's 900+256 stick or just 1Ghz. I have 128 megs of ram and that might be a bottleneck. The 1Ghz gets 1330@133 and the 900 gets 1266. I know I will never accually see the difference, but I just like to see how high I can get. I'm ordering from newegg tomorrow, I still haven't really decided but I'm leaning towards 900.