I believe you about the Celery being good enough for everyday stuff. It was only recently that my p3-500 really started to show its age. I use 800MHz Athlon systems regularly and those are plenty for everyday usage. I don't want to encode video files with them, but that's not really what I consider "everyday" for your average joe.
Geeky1 had this to say Altho I do have to admit that the Celeron isn't bad. Say what you will about it (a lot of people here will disagree with me) but I like the P3 and P3-based (<=1.4GHz) Celerons. They run cool, and they're pretty fast for their clockspeed. In fact, my "print server" (1.3GHz Celeron) is my primary desktop because it's quiet, always on, and does everything except gaming just fine... and it's held back by the video card more than anything else (ATi Rage 128 32MB, scores ~1500 in 3DMark 01 in a 1.4GHz Athlon)
<font color=red><b>Thraacks:</font></b> If there was any doubt that XP totally sucked for benchmarking, my system is 700 points slower in 3dmark2001 with XP than it was with 2000, even though I have a higher FSB, more RAM, higher video clock, and higher clockspeed than my 18,255 score
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited October 2003
Yeah... I mean, all I do on an everyday basis is surfing, IMing, word processing, some programming, and that's about it. And a 1.3GHz Celeron + 512MB of DDR (Dual P3/DDR board...) + a Rage 128 32MB AGP is more than sufficient for that. No, it won't do games, but I'm not asking it to, either. I've got a 2.4GHz 1800+ system with a 9700 Pro and 1GB of DDR to play games on, not to mention the dual 2500+ system, which also has 1GB of DDR, and will have a Radeon 9700 Pro here in the next few weeks, when I get around to RMAing the one it had... So there's no reason for me to ask the Celeron to play games. All it does is serve files, my printer, do basic desktop work, and fold 24/7... I've got other computers for games.
Geeky1 had this to say gpu heatspreader? since when did the 9800 have a headspreader?
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited October 2003
Thought so. If you attach a heatsink using the method I posted, you'd better be damn careful then. If you tighten one screw down too much more than the other, your 9800 GPU will go bye-bye rather quickly. If the shim were still in place, you wouldn't have to worry about it much, but with it gone, all bets are off.
Mackanz had this to say My 9800 seems to max out at around 430 on stock cooler and goop. With AS3 and a waterblock, i guess 470-480 perhaps.
BLAH! My 9800 pro maxes out at 402 with an iceberq 4 and as3 and the gpu heatspreader removed.
I'm thinking of mounting an 1800 heatsink on it pretty soon
I understand why you got it cheap then. 2:nd handed?
Mine is just a non-pro but with the wrong memory unfortunatly. 430X330 isn´t that bad unmodded though. Gotta fix the vmem for the Nf7, it isn´t working. With 3.3 volts on the Twinmos, 250 at 11,3,2 cas 2 is a piece of cake. Now THAT´S bandwidth.
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BLAH! My 9800 pro maxes out at 402 with an iceberq 4 and as3 and the gpu heatspreader removed.
I'm thinking of mounting an 1800 heatsink on it pretty soon
I understand why you got it cheap then. 2:nd handed?
Mine is just a non-pro but with the wrong memory unfortunatly. 430X330 isn´t that bad unmodded though. Gotta fix the vmem for the Nf7, it isn´t working. With 3.3 volts on the Twinmos, 250 at 11,3,2 cas 2 is a piece of cake. Now THAT´S bandwidth.
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