i have a pcchips m726 motherboard with a celeron 333a slot 1 processor i thinking about putting a 366mhz socket 370 via a slot adapter and overclocking the fsb to 100mhz to get me 500/500mhz or putting a pentium III in which is better option.

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There's no guarantee your 366MHz CPU (Celeron?) will run at 500MHz.

I think the Celeron has 128kb of L2 cache, while the P3 has 512kb of L2

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That board will probably support up to a PIII 500/600 Slot1 which is just as cheap as a Sloket/CPU from EBAY, have you checked for CPU support and BIOS update?? or even read the manual??

Yeah, read the user manual and understand what jam said...there's no guarantee that you'll get it to run at 100Mhz. 83Mhz is also pretty iffy and 75Mhz is likely.

The Celeron 333A I'm working with today was clocked at 75x5 when I first saw the machine...thought something was a little fishy because I'd never heard of a Celeron 375. At 100x5, it booted into windows with no problems and kind of worked if you don't mind a BSOD every 5 minutes. It's happily (?) running at 83x5 now but, I'll still have to see how it runs apps, games, benchmarks, and so forth. The ASUS P2B in this machine does not allow me to lock the agp/pci bus and 416Mhz is as far as I'm gonna go.

I sincerely doubt your M726 will allow you any such adjustments either.

The advice above is sound...find out what the max cpu the board will support and go shopping. A pretty good source of PII processors is;

http://www.pcsurplusonline.com/viewprod.cfm?ID=4149

They have PII/400's for 8 bucks but your motherboard will need to support 100Mhz processors.

Personally, I'd stick with the Celeron and get whatever I could out of it.

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