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boraomega
07-20-2001, 06:11 PM
Hi people!
I would like to find an appropriate motherboard for Celeron III 600MHz. I've purchased recently PCChips MB PC133 socket 370 with SIS630/730 chipset and it is working but on SiSoft Sandra test performs miserable. Compared with any other system in 450-600MHz range it has about 1/3 of the caracteristics of others. Which MB will be best for this CPU?

Bora
ranchdog
07-20-2001, 08:01 PM
Tha SIS 630/730 Chipset is your main bottleneck on that Mboard. The celery has a lack of onboard cache memory. But hey---unless you are into power gaming or systems that require a ton of resources go with what you have! One of the best systems I've seen for us everyday folks was was an Abit flip-chip board (with the Soft Menu) and a Celery like yours. It has the VIA chipset/133Mhz fsb. Need to go to Abit website and browse. Be Back.

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mjc
07-20-2001, 08:22 PM
Hey ranch, while it may have been true that the first Celerons had no cache the newer ones do: L1 16k, L2 128K...a little whimpy but there.

There are probably several BIOS settings that could be "tweaked" to improve your performance with your current board...check outthis (http://www.pcguide.com/opt/index-c.html) and this (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/index-c.html).



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ranchdog
07-20-2001, 08:41 PM
Let's see - Did I say lack of .. or lack of any .. You know what I mean't. We talk funny where I live. Sorry.

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boraomega
07-21-2001, 07:44 AM
Thank you O' mighty masters!

Bora
ranchdog
07-21-2001, 05:11 PM
WHOA. You have PC's in Zimbabwe ? Kewl.

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boraomega
07-21-2001, 08:55 PM
Hard to believe... isn't it?!

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