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Does PII have the same socket type as Celeron?

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I'm running an old PII 350 Mhz on my old Gateway computer with an old gateway-supplied motherboard (not sure about make or model). If I want to upgrade to something cheaply, can I do this without getting a new motherboard? Or do I need to look into my case and try to pull a manufacturer and model number out of there?
 
G6-350, no "P" in there.

I tried gateway support and they told me my motherboard is part # 4000321 (Gateway's # I think). According to there info it's a Intel Pentium II motherboard w/ Integrated Audio. Not sure if this menas Intel is the board manufacturer though. The tech support guy seemed to think so, but I'm not so sure. I think he just wanted to be rid of me.
 
Oops, G6-350 is the one I was thinking of. We have some at work. It uses a 440BX-based motherboard and would probably take at least a P2 450, but that's not much of a boost (I did a search for 4000321 on their site, and confirmed that; 450MHz P2 maximum). They have some pretty slow hard drives too.

What kind of upgrade did you have in mind, what's your goal? If you're looking to do some gaming with it, just sell the whole thing and build a new one. If you want better application performance when doing actual office-type work, then a fast 7200rpm hard drive with a Ultra100 card (and a reinstallation of Windows) will help light a fire under it compared to the slowpoke 5400rpm drive and the Ultra33 controller on the motherboard. 256Mb of RAM would help, too. And you can probably scrounge a P2 450 from the For Sale/Trade forum too 🙂 Hope that helps!

PS: the power supply fan may be an Achilles' Heel for it... I've had a couple start buzzing as the sleeve bearing wore out.
 
Actually, that's not correct, since there were Celerons in Slot1 format too. 😉 But I don't think they're a good solution to the problem of low performance, either.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Oops, G6-350 is the one I was thinking of. We have some at work. It uses a 440BX-based motherboard and would probably take at least a P2 450, but that's not much of a boost (I did a search for 4000321 on their site, and confirmed that; 450MHz P2 maximum). They have some pretty slow hard drives too.

What kind of upgrade did you have in mind, what's your goal? If you're looking to do some gaming with it, just sell the whole thing and build a new one. If you want better application performance when doing actual office-type work, then a fast 7200rpm hard drive with a Ultra100 card (and a reinstallation of Windows) will help light a fire under it compared to the slowpoke 5400rpm drive and the Ultra33 controller on the motherboard. 256Mb of RAM would help, too. And you can probably scrounge a P2 450 from the For Sale/Trade forum too 🙂 Hope that helps!

PS: the power supply fan may be an Achilles' Heel for it... I've had a couple start buzzing as the sleeve bearing wore out.
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I actually just built a new computer (AMD 1800+ with an Abit NV70133r) I was thinking about buying a KVM switch and installing Linux on my old computer just to play around with. I bought a new 7200 RPM HD a long time ago and still have it. I guess I could buy a new mobo, some more RAM and a celeron or duron for pretty cheap. I've been able to live with it's slow speed so far, and it'll be my secondary system.

I'll probably just stick with it for now and see if I ever use the Linux system anyways or if I just get lazy and use windows all the time. Thanks for your help though.
 
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