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Malcolm
I'm putting together a low cost system based on a Shuttle MB that I've got that
will only take 400FSB parts, but having a lot of trouble finding source of
Pentium 4s with this bus speed. Everyone seems to only sell 800MHz or maybe
533MHz parts these days.
I'm a bit hesitant about getting anything off ebay after getting my fingers
burnt a couple of times with faulty parts, but do you think I should risk ebay
again to get a (probably 2nd hand) P4 or should I go for a Celeron 2.4GHz which
is readily available? What's the performance hit like for the 2.4G Celeron with
its 128K L2 cache compared to say the 1.8GHz (or better) P4 with a 512K cache.
Malcolm (Fantrace).
Be happy.
will only take 400FSB parts, but having a lot of trouble finding source of
Pentium 4s with this bus speed. Everyone seems to only sell 800MHz or maybe
533MHz parts these days.
I'm a bit hesitant about getting anything off ebay after getting my fingers
burnt a couple of times with faulty parts, but do you think I should risk ebay
again to get a (probably 2nd hand) P4 or should I go for a Celeron 2.4GHz which
is readily available? What's the performance hit like for the 2.4G Celeron with
its 128K L2 cache compared to say the 1.8GHz (or better) P4 with a 512K cache.
Malcolm (Fantrace).
Be happy.