Pentiums, socklets, and Coppermine, Oh My! 11
Graymalkin asks: "I just put my money into a dual Slot 1 motherboard and a PIII 500. I intend to eventually get a second 500 when their price drops, but now I'm worried about the life of my motherboard. I think it will be the 650 Coppermine and up processors that will be exclusively Socket 370 because of the on-die cache. Does anyone suppose I could plug a Coppermine into a Socklet card and use it with my current motherboard? 500mhz is fine for now but I would like to expand to maybe keep this system running for a few years without having it be completely obsolete. It was a huge investment and I'd like to see it keep up and kicking for longer than my last system. "
What? (Score:1)
Don't be pulled through the processor game. Your box will rocking for atleast 3 years. If trends continue, 3000mhz boxes will exist at that point, so it would be like having a 200 now.
Don't worry about it. (Score:1)
2 years will pass. Surprise -- you're making more money than you know what to do with, and you're donating your still useable old dual 500Mhz system to a school or something because you can afford a 12 processor 3000Mhz system without even thinking about it.
It will serve you well (Score:1)
As long as Intel don't dick with the SMP-enablement pin on the PPGA's, you should be good for a while yet.
Voltage (Score:1)
but you won't be able to keep your old processor (Score:1)
since the PIII 500's are pretty new, it is conncieveable that there could be a move to a higher stepping, which would make it hard to find a match for your current processor.
stepping (Score:2)
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Give it up! (Score:1)
If I recall, the Intel chip to wait for will be the next generation p3-coppermine for the camino chipset, and will use an entirely different socket design.
Re:Give it up! (Score:2)
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They dropped the socket 418. (Score:1)
As for the 650 athlon, ok then. Find me a dual motherboard. OOPS, Not yet. How much is that 650 athlon? P3-500s are very damn close to $200 a pop now. Dual BX boards for $150. Single athlon boards for $200...if you can find one
FASTEST? Who cares, I could [in theory] go out and blow a couple mill if I want fastest. PRICE VS PERFORMANCE
I'm not intel monkey. But you cannot EVER start ignoring two little things, $price tag and availability.
Anonymous Coward, get it?