Just another tidbit-
Celerons are old. Athlons are new. There is a reason price falls with
time...
Also-
The K7 500 mhz usually is a 650mhz chip. So you can overclock it to 650
mhz for about 70$ more (or less if you are good with a soldering iron).
Honestly.... new technology == high prices, but it will come down in price
remarkably fast. In fact, I saw athlon 500's for 179; the board is
100-150, so already they have dropped quite a bit.
jason
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Jim Wang wrote:
>
>
> The recent discussion of the K7 Athlon envy piqued my interest because
> I recently faced the decision of how to upgrade from my K6/200. I had
> two candidates:
>
> prices for mb, CPU(s) and fan(s):
>
> K7/500 plus Asus K7M, about $375
> dual Celerons on Abit BP6, about $250
>
> I was attracted to the Athlon because of the specs: reported
> performance better than P-IIIs, 2 MB cache, 200 MHz bus, etc.
>
> However, thanks to several helpful readers who performed a basic
> floating-point benchmark (a matrix multiply) it seemed that simple
> floating-point operations (multiplies and add) do not fully exploit
> the K7's specs. Since I don't play games or do any fancy graphics,
> floating-point and integer performance is more important to me.
>
> So I went with the BP6 with two Celeron 366s, which happen to reliably
> overclock to 572 Mhz (144% !). This machine has incredible
> performance:
>
> - Runs 2.2.12-20smp SMP with RH 6.1
> - dmesg reports 1141.96 BogoMIPS
> - Performs FP benchmark in 4.4 sec (using one CPU only), compared to:
> P-II/400 8.9
> Sun Ultra 60 16
> K7/500 17
> - Supports up to 8 IDE drives, 4 ea. DMA/33 and DMA/66
> - Has 2 on-board USB ports
> - No problems @ 104 MHz FSB with PC-100 mem, STB video, AHA2903,
> AudioPCI
> - Has an avid user group with info at www.bp6.com, lots of useful info
>
> For $47 each, the C366 Celerons are remarkable. They overclock better
> than more expensive C400s (have two at work which only go to 522 Mhz).
> I still have a Pentium 90 which cost $600 in 1994. It does the
> benchmark above in 72 seconds. :-(
>
> There's no doubt that the K7 is an excellent chip, and for many
> applications it is preferable for the same reasons that my $250
> machine can't really replace a Sun Ultra 60.
>
> But I think that for many people, the lower cost BP6 board is more
> than adequate and will suffice quite well.
>
> Jim
>
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