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Hardware Upgrade or Not?
hyiu:
if its a 1G celeron.... I don't think it'll make much difference...
I think you'll be able to play NBA JAM... but not much more...
I would say... take it home first... then just install Mame (a newer version) and dump like 3-5 games in there and try it... (even just play with keyboard or whatever...)
and then you'll see if its worthed...
especially... play something like Mortal Combat that is more "video" than street fighter which is more "cartoon"...
if its 1G, but Celeron and using onboard video and sound... its not much better than your 500MHz....
ps: I think memory matters also... so.. before bringing it home... try to load it up with memories... haa haa haa....
good luck...
Generic Eric:
--- Quote from: nickbuol on March 18, 2004, 04:00:35 pm ---OK, for the rest of you pack rats (like me) I am taking it home anyway. As for swapping it out, you bet, piece of cake, but my question is will it make that much difference in performance being a Celeron?
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Oh...
Dunno, I went from a Athalon 600 OC'D to 700 to a 1.8ATHALON XP. Not a very good gauge for comparison. Good score on the free PC though. I wish a computer would fall in my lap.
GroovyTuesdaY:
--- Quote from: generic_eric on March 19, 2004, 01:45:14 am ---
--- Quote from: nickbuol on March 18, 2004, 04:00:35 pm ---OK, for the rest of you pack rats (like me) I am taking it home anyway. As for swapping it out, you bet, piece of cake, but my question is will it make that much difference in performance being a Celeron?
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Oh...
Dunno, I went from a Athalon 600 OC'D to 700 to a 1.8ATHALON XP. Not a very good gauge for comparison. Good score on the free PC though. I wish a computer would fall in my lap.
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Hehehe. I make a deal with my friends and anyone that wants to me to do a computer upgrade for them. I will do the upgrade at no cost out of their pockets, but .....BUT, i get to keep whatever hardware i upgraded them from :) Makes it nice for me, because i can keep a stash around of old "stuff""just in case" hehe.
As far as seeing any real performance differences from the old to the new pc, i would think that the celeron would still be a decent upgrade from the 500 p3. Your doubling the speed even though its not a power horse, it should still perform reasonably well. Just make sure you got plenty of memory. I would say at least 256 if your using anything under win xp. If its XP go 512 for sure, but it sounds like your probably running win ME or 98 or even dos.
Good luck :)
groovY~
nickbuol:
I know the feeling up upgrading. :P
I went from a P3-500MHz for my main (not Mame, although I have the same in there too) computer up to an OC'd Athlon XP 3200. 1GB dual path RAM with LEDs, a nice 180GB drive, a smoking $250 128MB vid card, etc, etc. I feel like I am standing still when I fire up my "old" computer now (great for the kids). I can't afford another dump of money like that for the MAME cabinet. I will "score" the 1GHz celeron and see what happens. Heck, it is only a matter of time before they are throwing out 1.6+ GHz boxes, right? ;D
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