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1999 best valued High-performance with high-end audio ATX mainboard
you can still purchase and use it although it is already discontinued for a
long time. How
can I upgrade my old Pentium/II/III/4 computer?
New
Comparison of Pentium III to Pentium II
ATC(Advanced Transfer Cache) version Pentium III
Up to 2GHz Pentium III PC performance Do you know that 32-bit desktop computers are almost
matured after very busy one generation per year during the progress of the last decade in
20th Century? And do you know that Pentium 4 does not support dual CPU configuration and
Pentium III with 440BX chipset is still the latest desktop dual processor solution
for Pentium series computer. A brief hints of best Pentium III desktop computer systems (principles also
applied to all later Pentium 4 and current Core series desktop computer):
New update will be shown as Italics 1. 56K(bps) Modem is the limit of analog line modem
Internet
speed is limited by modem speed. If you feel slow speed of download files or multimedia
contents of web pages, don't blame for the CPU speed. You should consider to upgrade your
modem as DSL or cable modem. Now analog modem is
already obsolete. DSL modem speed is still around 1Mbps just like 10 years
ago. Cable modem is also around 1~2Mbps during peak hour in busy community,
but the top speed may be improved up to 30Mbps. 2. Choose optimal (price/performance) speed of processor
CPU
performance is proportional to speed of processor if same structure and cache (for example
600MHz ATC version of Pentium III is much faster than 600MHz standard version of Pentium
III since full speed L2 cache for ATC version even only half size
[256KB] compared to standard
version). All later processors and new Core series CPU benefits
performance advantage from 256KB to 1MB L2 cache per
core. 3. Dual-processors really boost performance under Windows 2000/NT
Never
thought dual-processors mainboard only used for server. Desktop computer can benefit
significantly from dual-processor configuration under Windows 2000(based on NT technology)
or Linux operating systems, the performance can be boosted up to double (heavily dependant
upon how parallel degree of computer job). All Core series CPU just like
2, 4 or more CPU cores with L2 cache built in one CPU package and all later XP, Vista or
System 7 Windows support multiple processor. Actually our P2LXA/P2BXA is the
first desktop computer considering multi-processor support in the world. 4. Premium graphics card preferred
Premium graphics card using chipset with the latest graphics accelerator structure, for
example nvidia GeForce3/2/256 and TNT 2 series can obtain either 2D or 3D
graphics performance proportional to CPU speed, even they are already the fastest
performance among all graphics cards. Recently most of mid+ level graphics cards both have
the best 2D performance since 2D graphics architecture was already matured a couple years
ago. But nvidia still dominates the best 3D graphics architecture.
2D graphics performance (same bus and same CPU speed) is similar to 10 years ago although 3D graphics
performance has a lot progress during past decade. But unless you play 3D
game or work on 3D CAD you never use 3D architecture in any other
applications 5. Select best IDE hard drive
Recently
IDE hard drives has a lot of progress from very high-density disk plate with fast and
precise tracking/positioning system. It has similar performance of best SCSI 7200rpm hard
drives with a small fraction price of SCSI hard drive and controller. Some hard drives of
recent trend even use lower rpm(4400rpm vs. 7200rpm) to obtain higher reliability, lower
power, lower cost and lower audible noise but no sacrifice performance.
The trend is strongly continuing, now physical performance can be 100+MB/s
which is almost 10 times compared with 10 years ago. You can benefit it
significantly to upgrade old Pentium/II/III/4 computer now. 6. Use DVD instead of CD-ROM drive
DVD
drive, can watch high-quality MPEG-2 movies, is superset of CD-ROM drive and its price is
already reasonable. One reason not using DVD is that there are high-speed CD-ROM drives up
to 72X, you can enjoy "flying feeling" which is faster than current DVD
drive(40X on CD-ROM mode). That is mature area except blue ray DVD. 7. Consider excellent audio function
Most
of software and internet contents (not only web pages now even promotional e-mails) already
have abundant multimedia (include audio) contents, to exploit their function you should
have excellent audio function (such as hardware wavetable synthesis, hardware DirectSound
and DirectSound3D accelerator, of course excellent codec, mixer and amplifiers are
mandatory) built-in. Although there is high definition audio in digital
side there is no audible difference (don't confuse with high definition
video which has dramatic visual impression). The bottlenecks are still analog
and acoustic portions that matured long time ago by well-engineering design/reasonable
price. P2BXA Dual Pentium II 440BX with
high-end audio ATX mainboard(Also supports
Pentium III 450MHz~1GHz CPU include ATC version) ---Best Pentium III mainboard
with dual-processor technology P2LXA Dual Pentium II 440LX with
high-end audio ATX mainboard ---Best Pentium II mainboard with
dual-processor technology
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