Tualatin P3-S 1266MHz

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Eddy

I have a TUSL-2 Asus MB and I'm considering a cpu upgrade qith a 1266MHz
P3-S Tualatin with 512Kb cache (about $250).
Is it worth, or is better buying a new MB+CPU+DDR RAM?

Thanks.
Eddy
 
I have a TUSL-2 Asus MB and I'm considering a cpu upgrade qith a 1266MHz
P3-S Tualatin with 512Kb cache (about $250).
Is it worth, or is better buying a new MB+CPU+DDR RAM?

Thanks.
Eddy
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That specific Tualatin CPU is a bad upgrade. It is overpriced and the
extra L2 cache would "usually" be of less benefit on a PC than a
higher-clocked CPU. A good low-cost Tualatin upgrade would be a
Tualatin Celeron 1.4GHz, is $46 USD but presumably a bit more there.
You don't mention what CPU the system is currently running so even
that may not be much of an upgrade relative to newer CPUs.

The far better long-term upgrade would instead be a new MB, CPU,
memory.


Dave
 
That specific Tualatin CPU is a bad upgrade. It is overpriced and the
extra L2 cache would "usually" be of less benefit on a PC than a
higher-clocked CPU. A good low-cost Tualatin upgrade would be a
Tualatin Celeron 1.4GHz, is $46 USD but presumably a bit more there.
You don't mention what CPU the system is currently running so even
that may not be much of an upgrade relative to newer CPUs.

The far better long-term upgrade would instead be a new MB, CPU,
memory.


Dave
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Thank you very much for your clear answer, currently I am using a Celeron
1.0 GHz so I think that I will go for a total upgrade.
I agree with you that the P3-S is overpriced, it was a temptation: few
dollars less and I would have done a CPU-only upgrade for the first time in
my life :) better luck next time.

....going to find a good and hopefully cheap Barton mainboard, any hint?
 
The 1.2 PIII will give at least a 40 percent improvement over the 1 gig
celeron and they go for less than $100

The 512 cache PIIIs are for servers not desktops. Not even sure it will work
in a TUSL-2

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