[plug] Celeron vs Duron and Debian Disks?

[Scott Campbell]

Funny you should say that, cause on Monday i bought a Duron 750 and a
geforce 2 mx and a the latest ASUS board (cant remember model, but it has
onboard RAID) I bought it cause on the weekend i cracked this shits playing
with old AT Pentiums that would not work all of the time when trying to
install linux on them.

I bought it souly to put Linux on, debian 2.2 to be exact, but i have a
small problem no CD's :(

If anyone is in the West Perth Area by day, and Bateman/Murdoch area by
night, and is willing to part with some debian 2.2 disks, it would be
greatly appreciated! naturally I am willing to pay for the cost of burning
and CD's etc etc.

Thanks

Scott C


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Plester" <dennisp at tiwest.com.au>
To: "'plug'" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>; "'clug'" <linux at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:26 AM
Subject: [plug] Celeron vs Duron - part 2


> I posted a query last week regarding the choice between upgrading an
> existing PC with BX motherboard to a Celeron 700, or selling the
motherboard
> and switching to the Duron on behalf of a friend.
>
> We went a grabbed a Duron 700 for $125 and a suitable motherboard for
$210,
> and did the deed. In a nutshell, the upgrade went beautifully and improved
> the performance by considerably more than expected. My mate is now getting
> ready to enter the world of Linux.
>
> The performance difference was so impressive that I bit the bullet and did
> the same. So my Celeron 500 with board was swapped to a Duron 700 and
socket
> A board. My 3dmark 2000 3d (windows - directx7) gaming benchmark more than
> doubled from 1900 to 4500 marks, and my various Linux benchmarks using
> Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena went ballistic. What's more, general
> performance in Windows and Linux is noticeably faster. My Geforce2 MX is
now
> running at 4x AGP rather than 2x, my UDMA 66 hard disk can now run as such
> rather than UDMA 33 and my PC133 RAM is now running at 133, rather than
the
> paltry 66 under the Celery. I should have done this earlier.
>
> An added bonus was the fact that the Duron overclocks by just looking at
it.
> I ran it for 12 hours straight running a looping Quake 3 demo, ticking
over
> at 950 MHz, and sitting on 48 deg C with the bog standard heatsink/fan.
Not
> bad for $125! For those interested, I unlocked the multiplier using the
> golden arches trick with a 2B pencil. No other CPU voltage/front bus
> frequency tweaks were required.
>
> I was Intel only, but it looks like I've made the switch. I have since
come
> across a guy who went the other way, and kept his existing board while
> changing to a Celeron 700. It has sped things up considerably, but he is
> regretting his decision. I hope this info is of use to someone out there.
>
> Dennis.
>
>