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On Tuesday, in article <8cdfhs$mv7$1@supernews.com>
     cliff_tinson@lineone.net "Cliff Tinson" wrote:

CT> Trouble with the K62 now is that there's nowhere to go in the future. The
CT> m'boards seem to only go up to 550. The 550 seems to be the end of the line.

I'm sure you're right on that, Cliff ... but then again I seem
to take a different view of upgrading to others.  Some ppl seem to
jump every time CPU speeds increase by 50% or so ... but I prefer
to hang on to a system for much longer, so that by the time I
come to upgrade, it definitely needs a new m/b.

It's not just that my old 486 m/b is not meaningfully
upgradeable at this point ... it seems to me that any m/b more
than about 18 months old is unlikely to be much use for a
new CPU, *unless* it was one of the fastest and latest at the
time it was bought.

I reckon that since I probly won't u/g my CPU for 2 or 3 years,
I can probably use my money best by buying a m/b which does what
I need now, and get a new one when I get a new CPU.  By that 
stage I'll prob be looking at 1500MHz CeleronIV or something like
that, which would seek refugee status if confronted with a
current m/b :)

(It has always seemed to me that in terms of performance for your
money, the best value generally lies a few small steps up from
the bottom of the ladder at any given point in technological time.
For about UKP120, I can now get a Cleron with a reasonable m/b, 
and another UKP120 in 2 years or so will probably double or triple 
triple my CPU power with a new m/b.  OTOH, spending the whole UKP240
now would only just about buy a 30% or so increase in performance
... so it seems more sensible to use the money for a bigger jump
in a few years if I've followed the curve in software bloat).

But in view of all the helpful comments here, I'll be going for a
Celeron rather than a K6-2 ... and if I can squeeze the extra few
pennies, I think i'll treat myself to a dual setup on a BP6.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

Claire

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