According to a product review by PC World still on the web, "Compaq also offers
preconfigured and user-configurable models of the Presario 5000 series with
Pentium III, Celeron, and Athlon processors." So if you need help with the
system, you need to tell us its exact model.

Memory speed makes no difference in the performance of a computer, as long as
the memory meets the specifications required by the computer. You can install
faster memory of the same type (e.g. PC133 in a system shipped with PC100), and
the CPU speed will not change... Ben Myers

On Tue, 01 May 2007 01:21:37 -0000, lid (playstation60) wrote:

I have a Compaq Presario 5000, that I traded a busted laptop to my dad
for. As far as I'm aware he did not do any kind of overclocking (mobo
is locked if memory serves me), and everything left in the system is
standard issue. My question is what is the fastest speed of Ram I can
throw in there, also what are the maximums for amount of RAM?


Any idea on if the computer can have an upgrade done to the CPU?