Gateway woes...

[Goosemaster]

I have a friend who has an old gateway pc and i was wondering if it could be upgraded to a celeron 2 800. Of course i spoke to the incompentant monkeys with phones at Gateway, but they told me that the board was limited to a 400mhzPII. My question is if i can by chance put the cpu in there and if the multiplier goes that high.


Here are the specs:

Motherboard
MBD PII /BX /TL ENH R2

Processor
SAC CPU 366 128K PENT /CE R0

Memory
MEM DIM 64M 8X8 4C 100/66 R0

Hard Drive
HDD IDE QTM 4.3GB CR4.5AT R0

CD-ROM
CDR IDE MMI 13X/32X R3

Speakers
SPK ALT GCS100 W/O LOGO R3

Modem
MOD CRD PCI DATA/FAX 56K R2

Operating System
SWR OPC MS WINDOWS 98.8 R1

Keyboard
KBD KT MFX R3

Mouse
MOU PST PMX W SCROLL XII R3

Floppy Drive
FDD 1.44 MMI DRV /STD R0


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[Sukhoi]

Is that PC66 RAM? If so, you're going to have a hard time running a 100 MHz FSB. 🙂

Also, it might not be able to handle the Celeron II's voltage.

 

[thraxes]

Gateway MBs suck for upgradeability

but lets have a look:
it's got a 440BX mainboard = change the ram to 100MHz and the system should be capable of running 100 MHz FSB
max clock multiplier unknown = big problem... have to try it with a faster processor
voltage = biggest problem... no trying here, need the spec sheets

 

[bacillus]

<< max clock multiplier unknown = big problem >>


actually not as all present intel cpus are multiplier locked!

 

[circut16]

Ther's just no way
BX chipset, yea right

 

[Sukhoi]

<< Ther's just no way
BX chipset, yea right >>



Why not? You can run Coppermines on plenty of BX boards...they have just about the best performance you can get out of a PIII.