Best Choice for Old P3?

[andrewhaji]

I'm trying to build a secondary PC with some old parts I have. I have two possible processors: one is a Pentium III 667 MHz (133 MHz bus) and the other is a Pentium III 850 MHz (100 MHz bus). Which would give me better overall performance?

(On a side note, I also have a Celeron 1 GHz, but I doubt it'd be as fast as either of the other two.)

It'd be easy to say the 850 MHz would be faster, since it has a higher frequency, but I'm wondering about the bus speed. Since the RAM runs at the same speed as the bus, would having my RAM clocked at 133 MHz give me a big speed increase?

Thanks in advance!

 

[OldMX]

If that Celeron is one of those with a big IHS then its Pentium III with 256kb of cache running on 100mhz fsb, which would be faster than the other 2 cpus.

I know because i got some spare parts and built a computer with them, its was one of those celerons and a retail intel mainboard plus 512mb of kingston ram and it works great

Good luck on your build

0ldMX

 

[TheMostWantedPolishTwin]

I'd try running that PIII 850 at 133 FSB