700 MHz CPU Upgrades for Pentium Pro Systems!

[Quickfingerz]

Don't throw away those Pentium Pro systems yet.

http://powerleap.com/PL-ProII/

 

[Insane3D]

Holy crap, will those work in my mom's old Gateway Pentium Pro 200 system? They do come with a lifetime warranty. I wonder how they did that?

 

[Quickfingerz]

It's a super upgrade for those running at 150 mhz and 200 mhz. I was totally surprised with this.

 

[Peter]

Doing that is actually quite simple - keep in mind that ever since the Pentium Pro, the CPU-to-chipset interface hasn't been changed AT ALL. Only the frequency has been raised twice to 100 and then 133 MHz.

Now with the Celerons still crawling at 66 MHz, all it takes to make a Celeron 700 run in a PPro mainboard is an adapter board that compensates for the differences in pinout and voltage supply, and a BIOS that is at least ignorant enough to boot the system with any P6 family processor.

Regards, Peter