I have an old Pentium 2 350, I think. The CPU is a slot CPU, not socket. The mobo is labelled P6-PRO, unknown manufacturer (I'll find out when I get home). It has an unknown AGP graphics card, Sound Blaster 16 ISA sound card, 384MB PC100 RAM, HD, etc, etc. I want to give this PC to my brother-in-law as a birthday gift, as he has no computer. This thing is OK for casual use.
So I was looking at buying a P3 Celeron processor and slotket adapter. Is this a good plan? Will the mobo support a celery 1.0A running 1GHz ($62 from newegg)? Will there be enough of a performance gain to spend the $70? Or should I just forget it and leave the original CPU in there? This PC will probably be used for internet and some applications, probably not a whole lot of gaming.
The idea is to make it as CHEAP as possible. If the slotket will not work on this old mobo, then I'm giving him the PC with its original P2 350 chip installed.
Thanks!
JamesM
So I was looking at buying a P3 Celeron processor and slotket adapter. Is this a good plan? Will the mobo support a celery 1.0A running 1GHz ($62 from newegg)? Will there be enough of a performance gain to spend the $70? Or should I just forget it and leave the original CPU in there? This PC will probably be used for internet and some applications, probably not a whole lot of gaming.
The idea is to make it as CHEAP as possible. If the slotket will not work on this old mobo, then I'm giving him the PC with its original P2 350 chip installed.
Thanks!
JamesM
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