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celeron v athlon?
Name: sam_uri Date: October 5, 2004 at 11:02:14 Pacific OS: Win ME CPU/Ram: Celeron700mhz
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I have jus inhereted the bare guts of a AMD Athlon. It has a ms6191 mobo an a big black processer that slots in. it also came with a modem and graphics card from the same mobo, and a fujitsu 40gb hd. my friend assures me it was working well, before he upgraded to a XP1700. it has the power supply but no case, memory or sound card. could i theoretically give it new life , and more importantly would it out-perform my current pc?
Name: Badboy Date: October 5, 2004 at 11:06:45 Pacific
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What AMD CPU did you "inherit"?
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: October 5, 2004 at 11:47:10 Pacific
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As bad boy questioned, you need to name the processor speed for the Classic Athlon. This processor is most likely a 700/800 MHz, could be as high as 900thunderbird, which worked in the Irongate chipset boards. You would need to have 168 pin SDRAM PC100 memory for this board. If you are interested I have the manual for that MB in PDF format and I could email it to you. I am still running that MB in one of my machines. I use it as an MP3 jukebox connected to an audio receiver.
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Response Number 3
Name: sam_uri Date: October 5, 2004 at 11:49:46 Pacific
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that's what i,m tryin to work out. it says built in 1999 and has a serial no; amd-a0900mmr24b if this helps. thanks.
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: October 5, 2004 at 11:58:47 Pacific
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Sounds like a 900MHz, probably a thunderbird. I personally think that processor can outperform your celeron. The reason AMD stopped making processors in the cartridge package was cost. Your describtion of this processor vague. Is there a heatsink and fan on the cartridge?
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Response Number 5
Name: sam_uri Date: October 5, 2004 at 12:06:16 Pacific
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thats the fella! went to the msi website for details on the mobo and found it very helpful as regards to memory etc. where would i be able to buy a case for this?
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Response Number 6
Name: OtheHill Date: October 5, 2004 at 12:11:32 Pacific
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Any ATX case with at least 300w PS will do. I don't think the Manual is available on thier site any longer. If you are interested I will email it to you. I also have the latest BIOS file for that board.
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Response Number 7
Name: sam_uri Date: October 5, 2004 at 12:25:24 Pacific
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that would be very much appreciated! thanks for your time and patience. it came with a power supply, 240v, it says the max output is 149.1W max.
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Response Number 8
Name: Jake2 Date: October 5, 2004 at 12:32:11 Pacific
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I think a 600MHz Athlon would outperform a 700MHz Celeron, but a 900 is easily better. I'm not sure the difference would be noticable, however. You didn't list your RAM, but you would probably gain more performance by adding RAM and doing a clean install of Windows (ideally not ME).
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Response Number 9
Name: sam_uri Date: October 5, 2004 at 12:48:59 Pacific
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jake. for my celeron i have 2x128mb pc100 sdram but can get a total of 512mb according to Crucial. for the amd i think its the same but i currently have no mem installed. could i use the ones in my celeron? am i being a bit ambitious? i just cant bear the thought of throwing it away...seems a waste.
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Response Number 10
Name: OtheHill Date: October 5, 2004 at 13:11:23 Pacific
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That memory is what you need. If 256MB is OK for what you currently do then it will be enough for the Athlon board.
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Response Number 11
Name: OtheHill Date: October 5, 2004 at 13:16:45 Pacific
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Check your email.
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Response Number 12
Name: Big Boned Dude Date: October 5, 2004 at 23:02:35 Pacific
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Celeron and Athlon arent as good as a Pentium 4. And the pentium 4's have hyperthreading. Again not as good as celeron or athlon.
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