If you are trying to up the P3 450MHz, just go as high as you can with the P3, and like Brant said, I think I have read somewhere about the 933MHz P3 being great (but Im a AMD user so I wouldn't know). But I do use www.pricewatch.com, you can find stuff pretty cheap there, but you will need someone to install the chip if you are not comfortable doing it yourself. P.S. Being a girl has nothing to do with computers, you simply are not educated about computers. I didn't know s--- until I built my own computer and started reading forums and every magazine about computers.

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There are good sites that rate the different CPUs and motherboards, etc. One such site is www.tomshardware.com, though they can sometimes be confusing. I am still learning stuff, and had been searching to see if an AMD K6-2 was equal to a Pentium II. Didn't find the exact answer for a dummie like me, but lots of benchmark testing and reviews on that site. I had purchased an older motherboard and AMD chip, so was looking. A co-worker who is a computer geek told me that Intel Pentiums were better than AMD, but so far, I have been happy with AMD. I don't do gaming ( other than FreeCell or chess ), and works okay for internet for me. Being female doesn't have anything to do with being dumb on computers. I have a few female friends that can kick my large derrier when it comes to computer knowledge. :)

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Intels WERE superior to AMD back in the days of PII vs AMD K6II and III but not since the Tbird came on to the scene, since then, AMD is killing them. PIII's are actually better chips than P4's as the P4 is kind of a failure. the ONLY advantage that chip has over a tbird is streaming media...other than that, for the price, AMD kicks thier ass.

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mike that is very true.. amd is doing better but to state that amd labs is superior is far from it. you should look into the pentium 4 inter archetecture before you rate a processor.. pentium 4 right here::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: (willametta core) pentium 4 1.3-2ghz socket 423/.18micron fab/die size=217 sq.mm transistors=42 million l1 cache=20k l2 cache=256k on die fsb=400mhz technoogy=mmx+,sse,sse2(pre-fetch added) pipe line stage depth=20 SPEC======Intel's Williamette processor is the first of the next generation of Intel 32-bit chips for consumers, promising to reach speeds over 2GHz. It is the first new chip design from Intel since the release of the P6 in 1995 (Pentium Pro, II, III, Celeron, Xeon). The Willamette arrived on November 20, 2000, boasting speeds of 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz at introduction. It uses a modified socket 370 design with 423 pins. The system bus for the Willamette is quad-pumped and runs at 400MHz by default (4*100MHz). Intel mated the Willamette with Rambus DRAM and the Tehama / i850 chipset. The Willamette features 144 new SIMD instructions originally code named WPNI (Willamette Processor New Instructions), and now referred to as SSE-II. Willamette continues to use aluminum interconnects (not copper). Performance of the Pentium 4 with its 20 stage pipeline is no more than 20% slower than Pentium III (with its 10 stage pipeline) and Athlons of equivalent MHz speed. However, the larger pipeline does allow the clock speed of the Pentium 4 to be boosted up much higher than that of current Athlons and Pentium IIIs. The Pentium 4 is capable of handling up to 6 instructions per clock cycle using Advanced Dynamic Execution. Also, the Rapid Execution Engine (REE) of the Pentium 4 is able to shift repetitive tasks into a specialized area of the processor running at twice the speed of the processor with its own stash of fast cache memory. This is all part of the new NetBurst architecture. With the 1.9 and 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 chips, Intel introduced the new 478-pin socket which is a more compact package that features a well thought out, but new, chip and cooler retention mechanism. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: learn about piplining before saying the pentium is is junk. it has a 21 stage pipline which means instruction can be broken up into 21 sections and excuted in 21 different parts of the processer. the higher a pipline stage is also the higher the processor can scale in clock rates but dont do ans many excutes per clock cycle as an pentium 3 or athlon,,but the 47 million transistors in the pentium 4 also allow it get this if you take off the heatsink the p4 can actauly shut down certain parts of the internal processor its self liek fpu piplines and under clock internal parts of the core also .. this is a major leap forward the the high stage pipline is a huge leep forward also.. i currently use a athlon tb 1.2ghz but still intel has more money to fund ther lab. then amd does..amd is for those performance freaks and tweakers and hard core geeks and gamers yes.. intel pentium 4 doe have uses like i cant name any right now ahahahahah but it is the internal structure that makes it what it is.. the pentium 3 as far as im concered is a athlon tb.. but ther are alot of defferences yes but it is like a athlon tb very much so.. like the athlon's l2 cache data path is only 64 bit and p3 at 256bit. but the fsb of athlon is 200 mhz or 266. and the amd processor have a much better tradition cache engine that why linux luv the athlon with its l1 cache at 128 kb and l2 cache at 256 kb vs the p4 at l1 cache 20kb and l1 at 256k or 512k,, plus the l1 cache on the pentium 4 runs at double the clock rate its part of intels fast execution engine crap.. and p3 is at 32 kb and 256kb or 512k.. but linux like the athlon best and most high end computers run linux and unix kernal..

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Difference between Celeron and Pentium 3 And what is Pentium 3 and Cleron

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I have a Celron and a Pentium 3 both work fine. I have a question for anyone out there, how much difference is there in a 200mhz or a 133mhz? I am relating to a buddy's question of running wincdg on his computer. He says his music is playing but words just a hair slower. So, if he goes with a 200, should this be able for him to play okay?

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how do you raise the speed of you computer from pentium 3 733MHz or 800MHz to a 1.3MHZ or 1.4MHZ

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in reply to # 10 , at th 5th line from bottom you meant L2 and said L1

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GO with Pentium. If you want your computer to run well, you have to buy a pentium. FORGET everything else.

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