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A question for the elders, anyone remember? PII 266

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snyderjw

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I have a friend still running an old gateway PII 266, and doens't want to toss it "because it's still running." He wants an upgrade, and I was trying to remember if those could be upgraded all the way to celeron 700mhz as long as it was still a 66mhz bus (with the proper slotket adapter of course). If you can't get that far, how high can you get?

Thanks!
 
Well it?s more of a question of what MB he has rather then CPU

On the other had if he really doesn?t want to spend any money on an upgrade why not get a build in(or not) 1500+ AMD mobo with Sdram (less than 100$) and more power than the 700Celeron
 
There are some "slot adaptor cards" (dunno if that is the right term) so u can even put a PIII on old PII boards. I did that with a friend's machine and it worked like a charm 😀
 
Send him here so he can see that his PC is only worth $9.99.

It may be cheaper to buy a whole new PC than to upgrade his.

That said, while I don't have the exact answer to your question, it looks from the PowerLeap site like his PC could handle a PL-iP3 if he upgrades to Phoenix BIOS 18. The PL-iP3/T can handle Celerons and PIIIs up to 1.4GHz on a 133MHz bus using BIOS 18. However, since the PowerLeap database says his machine can handle a PL-iP3 and not a PLI-iP3/T, I would guess that the limit is 1GHz similar to the situation address in this AT FAQ. The best way to know for sure, though, is to look through his manual or upgrade his BIOS and see what FSBs and multipliers are available.
 
Yeah, it depends on what the board. I was able to upgrade a old Packard Hell PII 350 to a slotket with Celery 366@550 but I had to flash the bios on that NEC board from the packard to an Intel version. Some will even take the slot-T and up to a Tualatin 1.4ghz. Honestly though, it is the old "pouring perfume on a pig" though unless he's just looking to handle playing DIVX.
 
Ok. What is the chipset of the MB??? What type of memory does it use?? If it's 72 pin, you are out of luck --66MHz bus- 2.8 volts. Unless it has been upgraded it has a slow tiny HD, expensive memory, a 1X CDR. etc. If you have a pile of free parts you can give him, OK. Don't spend a dime on this machine. R
 
Originally posted by: RickH
Ok. What is the chipset of the MB??? What type of memory does it use?? If it's 72 pin, you are out of luck --66MHz bus- 2.8 volts. Unless it has been upgraded it has a slow tiny HD, expensive memory, a 1X CDR. etc. If you have a pile of free parts you can give him, OK. Don't spend a dime on this machine. R
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Yeah, just use my experiences as a guide, so you don't have to make the same mistakes I've made in the past. You
ALWAYS get much more for your money by buying new stuff, than by trying to upgrade something that's already out of date. Why spend $300+ to make that system still be outdated, when for about $400, he could have something that's up-to-date, and would kill his old system in performance even though he updated it??
 
tell him to donate that sucker to some kid, and get something newer. He'll save money in the long run.
 
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