Intel Happenings

Good evening Shack readers!

I just made £40 for 2 hours work doing something I love! Plus I got free beer too! Thats $65 odd for 2 hours work + free beer!

I bet you cant guess what I was doing.

Hmmm Intel do sound like they are on the ropes a little here. Competition is great.

BTW, sorry about the bragging nature of this post but I am pissed/happy =)

BH

I have a job in a cubicle. I sit there all day taking pieces of paper and making them into neat piles.

A friend of mine works at Intel. He said that not one person in the company has an office, including the CEO. EVERYONE has a cubicle, including the CEO (probably a little larger Cubicle, but still...



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cel@460 with 128 mb ram and a gf2, im waiting for the amd-760 chipset with ddr ram support...

LOL!

BH

Yuck: Post more than 10 characters please

doh i meant #51, dammit I am far to wasted to be posting here so I will stop now.

BH

#53, Close but you're way off!

BH

Why do you guys just jack Slashdot's news?

WHAT IS THIS RA3 DOWNLOAD I KEEP HEARING ABOUT?

What I wanna know is can I slap a 1.4GHZ chip into my BX motherboard :)

HEY EVERYONE THE SHACK IS DOWN NOW I HAVE NO WHERE THE PLAY CS>

WTF the Shack CS server went down what the hell sTeve

"a longer usefule life for the STABLER chip, faster bigger cache"

I'm not sure where you pulled all of that out of. The two chips are exactly the same except the celeron has less cache. They use the same core.

The Celeron533a oc's to 800mhz without effort, that means no voltage tweaks or extra cooling, many people run it at 913mhz without doing anything special and lots of people can get that just by goosing the voltage a bit.

After checking some benchmarks on the net I was surprised to see that the 700e oc'd to 913mhz pretty easily, and that this yeilds a performance gain in Q3 of about 25-30% over a Cel 533a at 800mhz.

Even at a 30% gain, it is still TWICE as much to purchase this processor. Now when you are speaking strictly about ratios, as in the price/performance ratio, it should be imediately obvious that doubling the price is going to throw that ratio way the fuck out of sync if the performance increases by less than twice. Hence, the 533a is the winner for price/performance in this comparison.

Of course the 30% increase might be worth it if it is 'just' $100 to you, but to me it's not. I make $9/hr so I have to budget just to get the $100 for the celeron, let alone the 700e.

Anyway, the whole argument is moot because I don't have a board that would allow me to step through FSB increments to OC the 700e. I can run at 66mhz or 100mhz, thats it.

I dunno, with all the trouble intel has been having producing 900+ MHz chips, I highly doubt they're going to be able to switch to 0.13 micron just-like-that and start producing higher speed chips. This is a desperate bid to try and get 1 Ghz chips out in quanity. They're running scared, but things could get very interesting if they actualy do manage to pull this off in the timely maner. We'll just have to wait and see if they deliver the goods on time or not.

Well is does kinda get confusing. All the current athlons are slot A.
Mobos using slot a are the asus k7v and the abit ka7... The new thunderbirds and durons will be socket A. However a few of the newer thunderbirs will work on the slot a mobos but i don't know how. One of the newer mobos supporting the socket a is the asus a7v.

All I know is that I am getting a Cel II 566. That is an easy overclock to 850+. That beats the hell out of my 233 right now. Can't wait. Two more weeks.

All i know is im not gettin a new box till 1.5ghz is cheap probably :/

Oh and guys what the hell is so different with the page and the new code. I don't see the big deal. But i don't know the first thing about programming so maybe it's just me.

Well me being an amd fanboy i don't give a fuck about Intel.. They are going to get fucked up the ass with the Itanium though.. hehe they can't even get it up to 800mhtz! suckers. Just watch the mustang blow it right up the ass. I got my athlon 800@920.. Thats not all that bad IMO.

If you have money you don't need to overclock :)

sure it will, I can get a p3 that will be it in Q3 fps by about 10-15% by paying twice as much, but that isn't the best price/performance is it?

I have rule of always getting the best bang for the buck, this of course is always done by overclocking. So I basically wait until the next -really- big OC chip hits, which it just has.
The FC Celeron 533 overclocks to 800mhz without any effort just by putting it into a slotket and dropping it into my current BX board (which is at 100mhz FSB). The fact that this celeron is running on a p3 core is another bonus, so for about $110 altogether Ill go from my current 450mhz P2 class machine (which is a celeron 300a overclocked I should add) to an 800mhz p3 class. Good value there.

Just wait for the big OC chip, thats what I say.

I only upgrade when I can more than double performance for around half the price of yesteryear. This October/November still looks to be the sweetspot (right before the x-mas gouging).

When are those expected price cuts coming? I decided to stick with my V3 2k for a bit longer and pick up a P3 700. But I don't want to buy now and have the price drop like 2 weeks later. Buying a GeForce2 isn't going to go shit for me while I am on a p2-450 and a p3 700 is cheaper than a GeForce2 anyway.

overclock a .13 piii 700 to 2.1 ghz.... we all know it can go to 1370 (with that one guy's) and to 1 ghz pretty easily....

too bad the ram and pci wouldn't work with that... and even if they made a .13 700

but i think the point is that .13's will overclock even more... hopefully intel doesnt lock em all up tight...

Now lets keep it on one slot/socket here intel.. jeez I have collection of mobos, which I don't need to add to...

Poopy.


I thought I'd be the first to say something intelligent.

hehe

Rambus sucks balls. I hope VIA makes a good p4 chipset.

FrO

I'll wait till late 2001 when all the bugs have been tested on peoples system :) I will never forget the i8xx fiasco :)

WOW Intel and 200mhz FSB? Never thought i would see that =D

Hardy fucking har.

Poop! Poop I say!!