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i got an old gateway 2000 with stock mobo. it had an old pentium 133
in it, and im getting a 233mmx. can it support this chip? im worried that it might fry it. |
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"GIRunit" wrote in message
i got an old gateway 2000 with stock mobo. it had an old pentium 133 in it, and im getting a 233mmx. can it support this chip? im worried that it might fry it. Don't try it -- Bill |
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It may or may not work, but probably not. RSVP with the motherboard BIOS ID,
and I should be able to determine the fastest speed supported by the design. If you can find one, there is a 200MHz Pentium OverDrive that will work just fine at 200MHz in all but the oldest socket 5/7 motherboards. Not too many were made though, as Intel and buyers both found out that the improvement in speed was not worth the high price back then. I may have one kicking around among my odds and ends of parts somewhere. Consider your case for exaxmple. The improvement in raw procession speed is the ratio of the new and old processors, 200/133, or about 1.5x. This was not worth the big bucks Intel charged. The first CPUs with internal clock multipliers were 486s. A 33MHz CPU could be upgraded to 66MHz with a 486DX2, 100MHz with a 486DX4 OverDrive (I still cannot understand why Intel called it a DX4, when the clock multiplier was only 3x), and 133MHz with a kitted AMD 133MHz 486-workalike. Now THOSE were substantial improvements for the time... Ben Myers On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:44:17 -0000, lid (GIRunit) wrote: i got an old gateway 2000 with stock mobo. it had an old pentium 133 in it, and im getting a 233mmx. can it support this chip? im worried that it might fry it. |
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On Oct 21, 5:44 pm, (GIRunit) wrote: i got an old gateway 2000 with stock mobo. it had an old pentium 133 in it, and im getting a 233mmx. can it support this chip? im worried that it might fry it. It's going on 9 years old, why worry? Anyway, check your motherboard for hints written on the silk screen, like jumper settings for 133mhz, 166mhz and so on. Another hint is if there are jumpers for the multiplier and frontside bus (FSB). These can give you a pretty good idea how fast a processor the board will support. You will rarely fry a motherboard by givivg it a processor too fast. IT might not work, but rarely is harm done. |
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A Pentium 133 has an operating voltage of 3.3v. A Pentium MMX 233 has an
operating voltage of 2.8v. There is some possibility that installing a Pentium MMX in a motherboard unsuited for it could burn up both CPU and motherboard. FWIW, because the 321-pin Pentium chips have only two pins for the clock multiplier setting, Intel re-used the 1.5x 100MHz clock multiplier jumper settings for the 3.5x 233MHz MMX. Identifying the motherboard according to its BIOS ID and checking the motherboard specs (probably an Intel mobo with very good specs) will provide the most definitive answer as to which CPUs the board is designed to support. Also, see my earlier post about the 200MHz Pentium OverDrive... Ben Myers On 22 Oct 2006 15:51:29 -0700, wrote: On Oct 21, 5:44 pm, (GIRunit) wrote: i got an old gateway 2000 with stock mobo. it had an old pentium 133 in it, and im getting a 233mmx. can it support this chip? im worried that it might fry it. It's going on 9 years old, why worry? Anyway, check your motherboard for hints written on the silk screen, like jumper settings for 133mhz, 166mhz and so on. Another hint is if there are jumpers for the multiplier and frontside bus (FSB). These can give you a pretty good idea how fast a processor the board will support. You will rarely fry a motherboard by givivg it a processor too fast. IT might not work, but rarely is harm done. |
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well if it doesnt work, then i have a spare chip i guess. ill have to
look into it. |
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