pentium 3 or amd athlon?

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acphydro

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I've got this old computer i put together out of old parts. Consisted of an Aopen AX6BC motherboard and a pentium3 600EB Slot1 cpu. I want to upgrade it a little just a new cpu mainly. I found a pentium3 1ghz/133fsb for $40 but I'd need to buy a hsf for it too, also can get a p3 866mhz/133fsb for $17 plus a hsf. Alternatively I can get a amd athlon 900mhz tbird slotA and board for $40 shipped. What do you guys think the best choice would be? I'm about ready to order the 866mhz p3, however is it really that much faster than the 600?

Above anything else....any of you have any old hardware say a cpu/board for an athlon slota you'd want to sell? or a p3 slot1 cpu youd like to sell?

Thanks

ps i know that aopen board is only 100mhz fsb but ive got it running 133fsb comfortably for weeks now.
 
NulloModo said:
Its an Old system to play with, go with the free PIII
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Yeah the free one is the one I have lol. It's just too slow for me. It's also got a geforce2mx agp card, and a 24x10x40 cdrw i found so i was trying to upgrade it to be fast enough to get a little gameplaying out of it for my nephews or something when they came over. Also wanted to play a little with it. I'm not sure how much faster an 866mhz p3 is over a 600mhz p3 thats why i was asking. But I can get that athlon 900mhz and board for only $40 shipped. I've been looking for reviews of old hardware but its hard to find what I exactly need/want to look at.
 
well, I dont know what mobo the athlon comes with, but you can probably oc it to just over 1gig. Thats a bit higher than the 866, and definately better than the 600.
Is it worth the $40 though? I might try to get him down a few dollars and go for it.
 
Monkey34 said:
well, I dont know what mobo the athlon comes with, but you can probably oc it to just over 1gig. Thats a bit higher than the 866, and definately better than the 600.
Is it worth the $40 though? I might try to get him down a few dollars and go for it.
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It's a Gigabyte GA-71XE from what I read it's a decent board, I would overclock if it would allow it too. I'm mostly an AMD man so I'm rather lost when it comes to the Intel side of things. He also said he'd sell me a 733mhz p3 chip for $15 but I'm unsure.
 
the problem with upgrading to a 133fsb p3 is you are already oc'ing the board to run the faster cpu. You cant expect to go any furthur than the cpu stock speed. At least the athlon will start from a faster clock, and then go up from there.
 
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