Upgrading 600E ?

[bachlaw]

We have a Dell Dimension, with a 600E/100 Pentium III processor on a BX motherboard, with the 600E mounted on the good old slot.

Question: Where to go from here? Purchasing a slotket seems obvious, but do I jump for the 850/100 (which seems to be the highest reasonable 100MHz bus CPU) or keep waiting for the 100 MHz Celerons to go up?

I have no desire to overclock, and the 600 MHz is plenty fast for right now, so no urgent upgrade is required. Am I better off waiting for the Celerons to keep increasing on the 100 MHz bus?

Jonathan

 

[GadgetGuy]

the 100Mhz FSB on the Celerons still wont make them anywhere near as fast as the PIII. I would go for the 850PIII, I have the 600E just like you on a VIA board, you can maybe overclock that thing to 800Mhz, that is what I can do on mine.

 

[bacillus]

make sure you install the latest bios for that m/board before the upgrade!