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Thursday, October 24, 2002In Upgrade Woes I wrote about my motherboard supporting a maximum of 8x for the clock multiplier, making any sort of CPU upgrade unattractive on a price/performance basis. Yesterday I did some IT work at a friend's office and decided to take home a dead 1.1GHz Celeron system in trade. Plopped the CPU in my box, figuring the worst that could happen is that my system would run it at 800MHz. Turned it on, POST shows 1100MHz, BIOS settings show the 11x multiplier, benchmarks prove it is running at speed, and it's about 10C cooler than my PIII 733MHz.
So now I'm ordering a 1.3GHz Celeron chip and hitting eBay to get a replacement motherboard for the 1.1GHz system. Looks like $200 worth of my time and money will net me two computers that are much faster than the one I had...
I love a good bargain!
