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New to the forums..

I acquired my 600x from eBay early this month, and the 550MHz isn't up to snuff.. So I got to reading here.. Basically, I want the 850.. Been lookin on ebay.. But thought Id try a private person first.. Anyone here got one? THat would be fabulous! Let me know via PM, email, or here.. It doesnt matter..

Also am lookin for the SVideoout cable for this beast.. Think it would be sweet to have it and turn my 32" tv into my monitor..

And if anyone has it, throw in a keyboard for my poor 600, seeing as how the mouse is just darting all over the screen.. Thanks in advance!

The 600X does not have S-video out. It has composite out, or at least the cable that came with new 600X's was composite.

No 600X came with a 550MHz CPU. And if you've been reading, you know you have to start with a 650MHz machine for the 850MHz part to work; you also know the 850MHz parts are expensive and rare. 800MHz is what I have in my 600X, and they are comparitively cheap.

One source you might consider is a broken laptop on eBay just to get its CPU.

The video out is NTSC, so the best resolution you can get is about 640x480, or a very flickery 800x600, and the refresh rate is locked to 60Hz. I don't think I'd want that on any monitor, let alone 32 inches of it. But it sure is fun just to make it work.

Yea, wheres my head.. Mine is a 500 MHz unit.. What does this mean then? What are my options? Basically, I need this thing to run Adobe Premeire for casual/light use (For school).. And I had no clue that was a composite ports.. From what I thought and was told last time I talked with IBM, it was an SVideo, but they could have been mistaken which led me to be.. (I was talking with them about my original 600, when they brought up the x).. Eh.. lol.. Ill post in the 600 forum for a what I can use..

You can put a faster CPU in that machine, but it will run at a slower speed. I'm not sure exactly how much slower, but I seem to recall that the 850 runs at 650 or 700 on the non-speedstep board.

Of course, you can get a SpeedStep board, and that will fit in your 600X case.

The video jack on the 600X is a three-pin custom jobby. My 600X came with a composite cable, but the jack seems to be the same on some 770 models, and those came with an S-video cable, so that might work too. The analog monitor output is very good, though.

Adobe Premiere is video editing software. Oooof. I use a P4 1.7GHz with 1GB of PC2100 memory for that.

If you do any transcoding (like to make MP2 files for DVD burning), the CPU is going to be MUCH slower than any P4. A 1.8GHz P4 is more than three times as fast as a 600MHz PIII.

Video means a lot of data, and your hard drive may be a bottleneck as well. A 7200RPM drive with a big cache would be worth considering.

Also, the 600X memory can be maxed out at 576MB, which could be OK, but it runs at PC100 speeds, or 800MB/s. New machines run at 4200MB/s or more than five times faster.

The 600X can do it, but have reasonable expectations.

totally understand.. Im not expecting a faster-than-my-athlon setup here. Like I said.. Just light video editing.. Taking digital videos, cutting and putting them together, dubbing to music, etc.. I dream big, but can fully keep it in reason..