I want to make one quick comment about the overclocking of
the Intel Celeron CPUs. It has been widely reported that the
Celeron 300a will perform well overclocked to 450mhz and that "was"
true... with a small failure rate.
However, it is now been reported to me that the failure rate of
Celeron 300a CPUs of the latest batches released from Intel has
risen from below 15% to well over 35%. There exists no hard data
to support this point at this time and the information has been supplied
to me as anecdotal.
I mention this as we here at The NOSPIN Group have always recommended
against overclocking. If you do intend to overclock a CPU remember that
there exist risks, mostly the demise of the CPU.
Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group
PCBUILD & PCSOFT mailing lists
At 07:51 AM 1/8/99 , Changhsu Liu wrote:
>Here is what I have built just recently, and I believe all the elements are
>very popluar and good quality. It's cheap and it's very fast.
>
>Motherboard: Abit BH6 (~$95)
>CPU: Intel Pentium Celeron 300a (~$95)
>PC100 SDRAM (~$180)
>Case: ($50-$80)
>Sound card: SoundBlaster Live Value (~$75)
>Video card: Creative Graphic Blaster TNT (~$140)
>modem: any modem from Supra or Robotic should be fine (~$50-$70)
>ATA IDE HD: Any major brand should be fine (e.g., IBM, Maxtor, Quantum...)
>(8GB for around $150 - $200)
>I use my old keyboard and mouse.
>
>These are mail-order price. Try to get multiple items from one source to
>save shipping. The advantage of this setup is it's very popular so that if
>you have problems, it's more likely to find help. Secondly, if you like,
>you can overclock it to 450mhz easily with soft menu (jumperless). I think
>the total cost is way lower than brand name computers (especially if you
>compare it to Pentium II 450mhz).
>
>Just my 2 cents,
>
>
>Changhsu Liu
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>
>At 06:05 PM 1/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Y'all have convinced me to try and build my own computer. Can you give some
>>recommendations for what to read/where to go to decide just *what*
>>motherboard, case, sound card, etc. I need to buy? I know nothing about
>>what are good components and what are not. I don't mind doing some
>>research, I just don't know where to start. I use my computer for word
>>processing, lots of email, a few games, not much multimedia stuff,
>>checkbook, journal- just simple stuff.
>
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