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    Question Intel Processor advice.

    Hello all:

    As some may know I'm upgrading my niece's Gateway Astro (yes I found out it can be done). I've upgrade the memory to 128 meg of Micron PC100 SDRAM. Now I'm ready to upgrade the Celeron 400. The Intel 810 will support either PIII or Celeron. She only has about $50 (I'll pony up some). I'm thinking Celeron 700 or maybe a lower end PIII (450-600 range). Any suggestions?
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    i would think a PIII 550 or 600 would out perform a celeron 700. if it was me, i would go with a PIII. www.pricewatch.com has the PIII 600s starting out at $90 and the Celeron 700 at $45. if you want to spend a little more, and the board would support it, you can get a PIII 750 about $100.
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    please let me know how it goes. our second puter is a astro and if it is not hard todo I would not mind giving it a try. i was told at the gateway store here in tucson a while bak that it could not be upgraded! i guess the lady was wrong <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">. so much for the store xperts.

    good luck!
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    Hello buccaneerjedi:
    It was very easy. Upgraded to 128 meg PC100 SDRAM (CAS2 crucial generic not board specific) and a Celery 700 (had to stay in budget <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">). There was only 1 DIMM slot not 2 as specified in the Spec Sheet, if I would have known before hand I may have sprung for the 256. I had it all completed in about 30 minutes. It easily doubled the speed of the computer <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> Not bad for an all-in-one box <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
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