Just called Compaq to find out what speed athlon a friend of mines system can upgrade to and heres the response:
tech: "Oh..thats a 5838.. let me look at the specs... well that can at least take an 800 maybe more"
me: "Uh..well what is the max..is that written down anywhere?"
tech: "No....we just look at the specs of the system and make a judgement call... I could go ask one of the other techs what he thinks"
me: "uh..yeah sure..that would be great"
DEAR GOD.....
tech: "Oh..thats a 5838.. let me look at the specs... well that can at least take an 800 maybe more"
me: "Uh..well what is the max..is that written down anywhere?"
tech: "No....we just look at the specs of the system and make a judgement call... I could go ask one of the other techs what he thinks"
me: "uh..yeah sure..that would be great"
DEAR GOD.....