[geeks] sunday project

[Shawn Wallbridge]

One thing you might want to try is seeing the the board supports 100MHz 
FSB. Most Celeron 300A's could run on a 100MHz FSB at 450MHz just fine. 
I have a pair at home that are 'stable' up to 504, but I have run them 
at 450 for the last 2.5 years with no problem (they ran at 32C, which is 
pretty amazing). It is a nice speed boost.

shawn


James wrote:

> I am rebuilding my wife's desktop PC that she no longer uses since I 
> gave her a laptop. So far I have found:
> 3 lbs of dust
> dead PS fan (lubed and turns but will die again)
> dead CPU fan (lubed and turns like new)
> 32M dram (have 256 to install)
> 56k modem (removed, broadband internet to the rescue)
> 16 bit sound blaster
> Intel 10/100 lan card
> 300Mhz Celery-Onion CPU
> 24X cdrom
> 6 gig IDE disk
> ATI Rage-2 AGP video
> 17 in CTX monitor (not bad actually, clean/straight picture)
>
> I have an Intel CPU that I grabbed from a dead dual CPU box at work. 
> It is the same socket style as the celery-onion. I was hoping that it 
> was something on the order of 450Mhz. It's a 266 PII. Drat. It might 
> be slightly zippier than the celery-onion because of its cache, but 
> the celery-onion is a 300-A (with cache) so I think I'll leave things 
> alone.
>
> I'm thinking that with the ram boost and installing Linux it should 
> run ok. With Win98se and 32M it was a tad slow (lots of swappage and 
> disk thrashing).
>
> If someone has a use for the 266 cpu they can have it, otherwise I 
> will scrap the fan from the enclosure and replace mine.
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