A7V333

Advantages: Cheap, Reliable, AMD board
Disadvantages: Socket A, so wont work with Intel cpu's

...I bought my ASUS A7V333 for £85 online. It boasted many modern features, a good BIOS, and the ability to add loads of RAM. The ASUS motherboard costs a little less than some other motherboards, mainly because it is a Socked A board. This means that the only processors it can take are AMD Socket A processors like the Athlon 1800 that I have in mine. The board boasts the standard 5 PCI slots for all your Modem and network cards, and has the newest AGP X4 AGP slot, meaning new cards like the nVidia GeForce 4 cards can run to their full capacity. One nice little touch on the A7V333, is that in addition to a top of the range AMD Athlon XP2200+, you could also have 3GB of PC2700 333MHZ RAM. Unfortunately since 256megs of that RAM costs about £60, i work that out to be between £500 and £600 for 3 Gigs. Ive also seen 4 fan power slots...

LimpBizkitUK 20.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of ASUS A7V333 - motherboard - ATX - KT333

fast & cheap

Advantages: Fast for a base model processor
Disadvantages: The fan supplied is an absolute #@$*% to fit in place

...(and to see if I was good enough at putting together computers to make a career of it). So, I blagged a case off Ebay (which cost more to deliver than the case cost me, but never mind)....... and ordered the bits off Overclockers.co.uk in 2 batches. Among the 2nd batch of stuff I ordered (29th August '06) was this particular processor, the Intel Celeron D 356 3.33GHz (LGA775) processor, which cost me £47.99 excluding the VAT.... I also spent £53.99 (excluding VAT) on an Asrock ConroeXFire-e-SATA2 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard to plug it into, and a GeIL 1GB (2x 512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual-Channel RAM memory kit. I then proceeded to cobble the whole lot together......... everything went pretty smoothly right up to the point where it was time to install the processor, something I'd never done before...

duck1979 23.09.2007 (18.02.2007) · Read review
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Asus A7v333 review

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...I have an Asus A7V333 motherboard and as far as i can tell, i have had no issues with it at all. there are plenty of features, almost too many. it has a few problems, as it still uses old connections, like the AGP 4x slot, which makes it very difficult to upgrade the graphics card now. it also doesnt have sata. other than that, the motherboard is brilliant. it has 5 pci slots which were useful as i had a lot of cards. The other upgrade issue with this motherboard is that is is using an old socket type, Socket A, which makes it difficult to upgrade the processor and to find a better fan. i am also happy with the fact that it is an ATX board, so it has lots of space for upgrades, if you can find them. This motherboard is great value for money and is a budget-board. probably good as a starter motherboard....

Matheusl02 16.02.2009 · Read review
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Celeron Or PIII

Advantages: Cheap,reliable
Disadvantages: not for graphics, or design application

...If you want to to build a low-cost but reliable system, the Intel Celeron chip is always the chip I consider using in comparison with all the other chip like AMD or etc . The celeron is fast enough to watch DVD from the computer write application have multiboot system. Play games etc. From the other hand if you using graphics packages or design programm don't go for celeron Dot think about the money buy a PIII which is more fast in this kind of application. But ofcourse is much more expensive. I can also recomend overclocking the celeron which is safe, Intel know about they first use to overclocking the DX2 33 to 66Mz. But however the decision is yours....

Chronis 11.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Intel Celeron 1 GHz processor

Celeron 533mhz - not recomended

Advantages: Cheap processor
Disadvantages: Slow, small cache,

...I have mixed experiences with these processors, In comparison to AMD's chips, Im afraid Celeron processors do not compare. My AMD K6-2/450 which worked without fault, was sold and replaced with a Celeron 533Mhz which at the time was of similar cost. Celeron processors were at the time rated quite highly however in comparison to AMD's 450, Graphical benchmarks, Gameplay, High Quality Video files, processor benchmarks all showed a great deal of a decrease in performance with the celeron. The Celeron runs on a 66mhz bus speed which greatly reduces performance in comparison to processors running at 100mhz bus. Celeron processors are known for thier ability to be overclocked which can greatly improve performance however this greatly dependant on which mainboard you choose. Increasing the Memory from 64mb to 128mb made...

Neil2k 22.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of Intel Celeron 1 GHz processor

Celeron II - A gone wrong PIII

Advantages: Pretty fast, PIII core
Disadvantages: Not cheap in budget terms

...The bosses at Intel have finally decided that they cant waste any processors any more. Its takes too much money and time in the industry to manufacture too many chips because they dont have many fabrication plants to do the job. Basically they had to find a way to make lots of different chips very quickly. Well here's the clever part. The Celeron II (not official name) is simply a PIII, well I say simply a PIII but that's what they are. Only difference is they are faulty PIII's. Not faulty as in they don't work, but faulty as in half of the 256k cache doesn't work. All Intel have done to these chips is disable the bad half of the cache and there you have a shiny new Celeron II. Not bad eh? Needless to say that then the Celeron II has a good leg to stand on as a budget chip. The core performance of the PIII is there in...

thepanther 01.10.2000 (21.12.2000) · Read review
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Review of Intel Celeron 1 GHz processor

Celeron 600e = 9.0x Multiplier

Advantages: Very Overclockable
Disadvantages: Small cahce

...A 9.0x multiplier is about as far as you can go with a Celeron to acheive the much respected 100Mhz FSB and therefore acheive 900Mhz in the case of the Celeron 2 600e. DO NOT BUY A CELERON 2 633, 667 OR 700 IF YOU WANT TO OVERCLOCK THEM 100MHZ FSB. Their multipliers are too high unless you are going to liquid cool them!!! It has to be said that the 0.18 micron die etch has been a god send for overclocking but when the multiplier starts to get silly, atainable overclocking on a locked bus is crazy, hence my suggested max of a Celeron 600e if you're thinking of clocking your new Celeron....

wildandyc 02.10.2000 · Read review
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Review of Intel Celeron 1 GHz processor

Celeron D 2.53ghz

Advantages: Cheap, works well, does 64 bit proccesing.
Disadvantages: No frills, slow performance

...The celeron D is a pretty hard call. The rating it deserves depends on what you want it for. It does its job as a budget processor very well but if you are looking for a good performer this is no way the one for you. Lets look at the specs. procesor number- 326 archutecture- 90nm cache- 256kb L2 clock speed- 2.53ghz front side bus- 533mghz intel emt 64 bit- yes excecute disable bit- yes These arn't very large even if you just comapre them to a pentium 4. For its price however they are understandable. Performance- is reansonable with basic applications word ect and runs very well. Video encoding is slow in comparison to more expensive procesors. It does run the latest games but as you move up to high resolutions and turn up to high quality framerates plummet and games start to go slightly joggoly at time...

boberto 10.08.2006 · Read review
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Now That's Some Good Toast

Advantages: Speed, good thorough toasting, looks very attractive
Disadvantages: Gets a bit hot

..."The Kenwood TTM333" I happen to love this toaster - along with the matching kettle it has transformed our kitchen into something a bit more sleek and chic. It's given the area a more modern feel and has the appearance of a quality product, which for the most part it is. It replaced a £4.00 toaster from Tescos which couldn't actually fit a piece of bread into itself - it toasted half, you took it out and flipped it round then put it back in. So really I'd' have been happy with any upgrade. But when these items were bought for me and my fiance as an engagement present from my parents I was really chuffed. Instantly loved how they looked and loved having proper toast! Right, the features of the toaster are as follows: 1) Six heat settings (Or Browning Control as Kenwood likes to refer to it as?!) 2) A defroster 3) A lever...

Ottavia 14.08.2008 · Read review
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Celeron Killer

Advantages: Fast, Full speed cache, Uses new socket for easy upgrade
Disadvantages: I dont think they will clock it as high as the Thunderbird

...The AMD Duron was aimed at the celeron, Aimed to take away some of the chips market share. Allthough the chip has not been out long I think it will do some serious damage to Intels Celeron. Like the Celeron is built on the PIII's arcitechture, the Duron is built around the Athlon Thunderbird. Again like the Celeron the Duron has only half the cache of its power counterpart the Thunderbird. With speeds starting at 600Mhz and currently range to 750Mhz in 50MHz steps, the Duron is still a chip that many people will consider as a "power chip" although this really isnt the case, people could be forgiven for thinking this. The Duron is a 462 pin Socket A chip just like the Thunderbird. This means that without much hassle the chip can be changed from a Duron to a higher speed Thunderbird if needed. That is a good marketing plan by AMD...

thepanther 27.09.2000 · Read review
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