[geeks] PPro Overdrive chips, anyone used them???

[Kris Kirby]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Like Bill a few months ago, I got my PPro system cheap (COmpaq
> Proliant 800 - $200, incl. 128 Meg RAM, 4 Gig UW SCSI HD, 20E20 Tube,
> 13W3->SVGA adapter, AWE64 sound card). I am wondering if I should have
> gone for single processor or dual slower... I do have a soft spot for
> SMP systems (I have Classic Pentium SMP, PPro SMP, SS/20 w/dual SM71s,
> *two* Ultra 2s with dual 300 MHz CPUs...) - they just seem cooler than
> single processor systems... ;^)

I fell for the MP bug about two years ago. I built a Dual Celeron
433. Comparing CPU power, the Celerons equal about a 800 - 833MHz
Athlon. Pretty good for a machine a year old when 1GHz was the top.

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