IBM PowerPC RS64 III 450 MHz processor board

Advantages: fast, new
Disadvantages: expensive

...I upgraded from an Intel Pentium II 450 mhz to the new Intel Pentium III 700 mhz mainly because of the upgrade offer at a low cost. I found that immediately there was a noticeable difference and just the way in which my computer carried out every day tasks like opening programs and the likes seemed to fly through as if my old chip was carrying 4 suitcases with it on it's chores! I find no problems at all with it and I would seriously recommend it to anyone after a high speed processor with lightning speed and good capabilities.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Plenty of Scope for improvement
Disadvantages: You can't get one for a P.C. - shame

...In recent trials the Motorola G4 Processor for Mac (running at 450 Mhz) out performed a P.C. running 2 thats....... TWO 1Gig Mhz Pentium III processors. I don't understand why P.C. owners are son fixated with Mhz - I suppose they need to run DOS so that Windows will RUN or is that crawl. C:/> CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computing = 30 - 40 time more code to process than an equivelent RISC Processor Reduced Instruction Set Computing Go Figure And 1 Gig Mhz is coming soon. PC are going to need Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Processors Just to Keep Up If they Can... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to overclock, good manual
Disadvantages: ATA/66 Controller is *ver*y* buggy

...Specs: AGP Slot(s): 1 Brand: Abit CPU Interface: Slot 1 CPU(s) Supported: Celeron • Pentium 2 • Pentium 3 Chipset: Intel 440BX Form Factor: ATX ISA Slot(s): 2 Memory (in KB): 3 x 168-pin DIMM (up to 768MB) PCI Slot(s): 5 USB Ports: 2 I've had the ABIT BE6 motherboard for over a year and it's worked great with the Pentium III 450 MHz CPU overclocked to 558 MHz (front side bus at 124 MHz). Recently, I've upgraded the CPU to Pentium III / 800 MHz (front side bus at 115MHz) and I've encountered many problems with the onboard HPT366 ATA/66 hard disk controller and my IBM 20G Deskstar ATA/66 hard disk. I've never had any problems until I upgraded to the P3/800 CPU. This required downloading and installing the new ABIT BIOS (TH) and the new HPT366 drivers. My troubles began then. The system would work... Read review

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