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Geforce · 08-03-2005, 02:14 AM

It sounds very intimidating at first but even if it is available the cost ins't justified. Why ? Well :

1) The cost of this adapter would be very high in India.

2) The cost of PIII tualatin 1.4 Ghz is very high and there are more than enough chances that you won't get this processor now. (This is because sales of this CPU never really took off as P4 was already introduced and every vendor pushed that)

3) It will only be PIII afterall, would not perform on par with P4, Athlon XP/64 processor of today.

The combined cost of 1) and 2) would be so high that you would be better off buying a new Motherboard and CPU alltogether.

Go for an atleast AMD Athlon XP 2500+ with nForce2 motherboard if not AMD Athlon 64.

Believe me mine was Celeron 950MHz (OC 1.1Ghz) with i815 motherboard, i was also considering to upgrade to P3 Tualatin 1.4Ghz without the socket adapter though, but did not seem the point after looking at the reviews and analysing the cost and availability in India (for the CPU).

Then I assembled AMD Athlon64 2800+ with MSI K8N Neo Platinum (nForce3 250Gb chipset) and 512MB DDR400 for myself and i don't regret it. In fact the system ROCKS NOW ABSOLUTELY ROCKS.

08-03-2005, 02:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
Geforce Broken In Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: New Delhi Posts: 159	It sounds very intimidating at first but even if it is available the cost ins't justified. Why ? Well : 1) The cost of this adapter would be very high in India. 2) The cost of PIII tualatin 1.4 Ghz is very high and there are more than enough chances that you won't get this processor now. (This is because sales of this CPU never really took off as P4 was already introduced and every vendor pushed that) 3) It will only be PIII afterall, would not perform on par with P4, Athlon XP/64 processor of today. The combined cost of 1) and 2) would be so high that you would be better off buying a new Motherboard and CPU alltogether. Go for an atleast AMD Athlon XP 2500+ with nForce2 motherboard if not AMD Athlon 64. Believe me mine was Celeron 950MHz (OC 1.1Ghz) with i815 motherboard, i was also considering to upgrade to P3 Tualatin 1.4Ghz without the socket adapter though, but did not seem the point after looking at the reviews and analysing the cost and availability in India (for the CPU). Then I assembled AMD Athlon64 2800+ with MSI K8N Neo Platinum (nForce3 250Gb chipset) and 512MB DDR400 for myself and i don't regret it. In fact the system ROCKS NOW ABSOLUTELY ROCKS.