Well, after being afraid of screwing around with changing a processor for months, I finally broke down and bought one for my testbed system to experiment with. I cannot believe how easy this is! People actually get PAID for this? :o It took me 20 minutes, and that is with having never done it before. Most of that was spent figuring how to unsnap the darn heat sink to get it out.
So now, my old beat up 866 mhz Intel PIII is now an old beat up 1.1 Ghz Intel Celeron.
The only thing I need now is a way to monitor the core temp. Anyone know of a little freeware program for that?
Kevin
(a bit proud of himself right now...) :)
Hmm, your FSB Speed has dropped from 133 to 100, and your L2 Cache on your "New" Celeron is half that of the PIII (128 vs 256k)
I'd whip that Celeron out, Benchmark your machine with the old PIII then re run the same with the "New" - Personally, I'd have thought you've actually lost some performance overall!
Not to worry, you now understand how relatively easy it is to build a PC - Congratulations! you should be pleased! ;)
I'd do some further research,Graphics & RAM , and you'll very soon have all you need to know to build a top end system for bottom end money. - Which is my strategy in PC's, top end cards etc are for top end wallets, you don't need to break the bank to get impressive results when building from scratch.
An example, My board has an "SIS" chipset, I did some research and found the chipset in question to be as quick as Intel chipset'ed motherboards, but, was
