What are the limitations of a Celeron/400 vs a PentiumII/400?  I'm
considering building a system using a Celeron/400 on an Asus P2L97 LX
chipset motherboard.  The client's going to be using the system
primarily for office apps.  He does need to have fast web access - an
integral part of his business is retrieving info off the 'net.  I
learned yesterday he may also be producing a news letter on the
computer.  I don't know yet what app' he intends to use for this.  I
thought 64MB would be fine but he wants 128, so it'll have that.  In
addition the video card will be an ATI Expert 128 AGP w/ 8MB RAM on
board.  Originally I was going to use an AMD K6-2/400 but got skittish
about using a non-intel chipset not knowing exactly what apps. he'd be
using.  It's a business system so reliability is imperative.  I feel
like a sheep but I want to be conservative in this build.

One draw back is, for this motherboard, it's topped out w/ the
Celeron/400.  However, I thought by the time they were ready to upgrade,
any motherboard they had in there would be obsolete anyway given the
changes in the technology that are going on now.  (This upgrade is from
a 386 - pretty good indicator it's gonna be a while before the next
upgrade...)

I checked out Tom's Hardware on both the motherboard and the processor.
Tom seems to like them both but I'm more concerned about the processor
being suited to the application.

I'd be greatful for any feedback.

Thank you
Joan

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