i have just upgraded my processor to a P3 at 500Emhz from an Intel Celeron 333mhz. When i play Age of Kings online it goes really really slow. before the CPU upgrade it was running perfectly. I have Broadband so i dont think its the connection. does anyone know what the problem is? (Any help would be greatly appreciated!)

P3's probably don't support the same advanced CPU instruction sets, ie. SSE2 MMX and stuff like that. Those instuction sets increase the speed in games, and probably weren't out when the P3 was released. The Celeron is just a crippled P4. So it sounds like the Celeron would be better even though it has less MHz.

The above post is wrong. Pentium III was the first processor to introduce SSE instruction set, given the speed of your Celeron processor it should be based on the Pentium II core, so it only supports MMX instruction set, not SSE. Maybe the problem is that you don't have correctly configured your FSB, for Celeron processors it is 66Mhz. but for that Pentium III processor it should be 100Mhz. since it has a fixed multiplier of 5x it should be run at 66x5=330Mhz. (anyway it should be faster than your Celeron processor since it has more cache mem. so maybe the problem it's another) Are you sure that your MB support 100Mhz. FSB and Pentium III processors? If the above is true change the FSB to 100Mhz. using jumpers or the BIOS setup program (see the MB manual for the details). Hope this helps.

Gee thanks.. My post isn't totally wrong. Today's Celerons are based on P4 cores, am i wrong?? I said the P3 didn't support SSE2, which it doesn't. So if you ask yourself today, should i go with a P3 or a Celeron the answer should be Celeron. I don't see how the FSB would effect anything unless it was really low. And in that case the cpu speed would also run really low. The motherboard not supporting the P3 sounds like a good one. But he talks about this slowness like it's only in that game. If that's the case then it's not a compatibility issue between the motherboard and the cpu.

Thanks for the response. The actually Pentium 3 CPU that i have is supposed to run at 667mhz. Multiplyer at 5 and FSB at 133mhz. Only problem is that i have a Chaintech 6BTM Motherboard and that can only support a maximum of 100Mhz for the FSB. I tried usin SoftFSB but that doesnt seem to work with my Mobo. Anyway the performance has been increased with the new CPU but in only this one game 'Age Of Kings'it seems to slow right down and then become unplayable when i play it online. My computer meets all the system requirements.

Thanks for the response. The actually Pentium 3 CPU that i have is supposed to run at 667mhz. Multiplyer at 5 and FSB at 133mhz. Only problem is that i have a Chaintech 6BTM Motherboard and that can only support a maximum of 100Mhz for the FSB. I tried usin SoftFSB but that doesnt seem to work with my Mobo. Anyway the performance has been increased with the new CPU but in only this one game 'Age Of Kings'it seems to slow right down and then become unplayable when i play it online. My computer exceeds all the system requirements for the game.

To Desmond: I think your previous post was far from reality. If you have the choice to buy a P3 or a Celeron near the same mhz, always buy the P3, cause it as more cache and the old celeron is based on the P2 core. Even the 1400mhz P3(tualatin)with pc133 ram will be by far better than a 2000mhz celeron based on the P4 northwood core with DDR266 ram. For is 667mhz P3, it's the equivalent of a 1000mhz celeron approximatly, so he's supposed to run better than is old 333mhz celeron. Also, the difference between 66mhz and 100mhz FSB, at this speed, will make a big difference.