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Compaq Presario 4640 processor upgrade?
My Compaq has a Pentium II 266mhz processor. It has been upgraded to
256mb of ram, new 80gb 7200rpm hd and Windows 2000. I know new computers are cheap now, but this machine still works great and I want to keep it. How fast of a processor will its old mother board handle ( even a 333 or 500 or so mhz upgrade will allow me run new software and hardware) and what is involved in replacing it other than swapping the two out? Thank you. Mike |
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A 333MHz Pentium II should do it. Possibly a 500 or 533MHz Celeron Socket 370
with a Slotket will work, too... Ben Myers On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:37:08 -0400, Mike wrote: My Compaq has a Pentium II 266mhz processor. It has been upgraded to 256mb of ram, new 80gb 7200rpm hd and Windows 2000. I know new computers are cheap now, but this machine still works great and I want to keep it. How fast of a processor will its old mother board handle ( even a 333 or 500 or so mhz upgrade will allow me run new software and hardware) and what is involved in replacing it other than swapping the two out? Thank you. Mike |
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doubt a 440LX chipset will do higher than a 333MHz. processor. The highest
jumper setting on the motherboard is for a 333. HH ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... A 333MHz Pentium II should do it. Possibly a 500 or 533MHz Celeron Socket 370 with a Slotket will work, too... Ben Myers On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:37:08 -0400, Mike wrote: My Compaq has a Pentium II 266mhz processor. It has been upgraded to 256mb of ram, new 80gb 7200rpm hd and Windows 2000. I know new computers are cheap now, but this machine still works great and I want to keep it. How fast of a processor will its old mother board handle ( even a 333 or 500 or so mhz upgrade will allow me run new software and hardware) and what is involved in replacing it other than swapping the two out? Thank you. Mike |
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True. But for those who dare try the slotkets, a Celery 533 is clock-locked and
works at rated speed regardless of mobo jumper or switch settings. As always, a faster CPU may run into either unanticipated BIOS timing problems and/or failure of the BIOS to boot when it finds an unexpected CPU type. In short, a slotket poses some risk, but at today's prices for a slotket and a Celeron CPU, the combo may be worth a try to crank up the overall speed of a system. And the oft-maligned Celeron performs respectably with its 128K internal cache... Ben Myers On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:54:20 -0400, "HH" wrote: doubt a 440LX chipset will do higher than a 333MHz. processor. The highest jumper setting on the motherboard is for a 333. HH ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... A 333MHz Pentium II should do it. Possibly a 500 or 533MHz Celeron Socket 370 with a Slotket will work, too... Ben Myers On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:37:08 -0400, Mike wrote: My Compaq has a Pentium II 266mhz processor. It has been upgraded to 256mb of ram, new 80gb 7200rpm hd and Windows 2000. I know new computers are cheap now, but this machine still works great and I want to keep it. How fast of a processor will its old mother board handle ( even a 333 or 500 or so mhz upgrade will allow me run new software and hardware) and what is involved in replacing it other than swapping the two out? Thank you. Mike |
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Agreed.
HH ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... True. But for those who dare try the slotkets, a Celery 533 is clock-locked and works at rated speed regardless of mobo jumper or switch settings. As always, a faster CPU may run into either unanticipated BIOS timing problems and/or failure of the BIOS to boot when it finds an unexpected CPU type. In short, a slotket poses some risk, but at today's prices for a slotket and a Celeron CPU, the combo may be worth a try to crank up the overall speed of a system. And the oft-maligned Celeron performs respectably with its 128K internal cache... Ben Myers On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:54:20 -0400, "HH" wrote: doubt a 440LX chipset will do higher than a 333MHz. processor. The highest jumper setting on the motherboard is for a 333. HH ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... A 333MHz Pentium II should do it. Possibly a 500 or 533MHz Celeron Socket 370 with a Slotket will work, too... Ben Myers On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:37:08 -0400, Mike wrote: My Compaq has a Pentium II 266mhz processor. It has been upgraded to 256mb of ram, new 80gb 7200rpm hd and Windows 2000. I know new computers are cheap now, but this machine still works great and I want to keep it. How fast of a processor will its old mother board handle ( even a 333 or 500 or so mhz upgrade will allow me run new software and hardware) and what is involved in replacing it other than swapping the two out? Thank you. Mike |
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