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old school computing question

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stringcheeseincident

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my first computer was a p3 550mhz, my current is an athlon xp 2500+. i got into it all fairly recently, and i need help with some older stuff. i have an old machine running a amd k2 300mhz chip. what "slot" name are these cpu's? where can i find a ~500mhz chip that will work in the same motherboard?
 
The K6es are Socket 7. I think they made a 550MHz K6-3, but I'm not sure.

That's not old school by the way.

Viva la Z80!
 
Originally posted by: stringcheeseincident
my first computer was a p3 550mhz, my current is an athlon xp 2500+. i got into it all fairly recently, and i need help with some older stuff. i have an old machine running a amd k2 300mhz chip. what "slot" name are these cpu's? where can i find a ~500mhz chip that will work in the same motherboard?
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... THAT was an old school question? Sheit, I must be REALLY old :Q
 
Originally posted by: Apathetic

I was expecting an S-BUS question. Yes, damnit, I'm old!

Dave
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Sbus isn't *that* old. I'm still running a few Sbus-based systems out here (mostly Ultra 2s).

(All the S100 bus based systems I used to have are long since retired, though.)
 
Originally posted by: stringcheeseincident
my first computer was a p3 550mhz, my current is an athlon xp 2500+. i got into it all fairly recently, and i need help with some older stuff. i have an old machine running a amd k2 300mhz chip. what "slot" name are these cpu's? where can i find a ~500mhz chip that will work in the same motherboard?
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You'll need to open the case and find out the model number and/or revision of the
motherboard and then go out and read up on it to see what cpu it will accept.

You have a super socket 7 motherboard but the real question is will it support 100fsb
and what is the maximum multiplier it will support?

From that info you can figure out how fast of a cpu you can use with it.
 
at least it wasn't a question on using the dual 5 1/4" disk drives to run lotus 123 with WYSIWYG on an XT machine...
 
Originally posted by: jyates
You'll need to open the case and find out the model number and/or revision of the
motherboard and then go out and read up on it to see what cpu it will accept.

You have a super socket 7 motherboard but the real question is will it support 100fsb
and what is the maximum multiplier it will support?

From that info you can figure out how fast of a cpu you can use with it.
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the only markings on the motherboard are those on chips and whatnot, when i search those on google, all i can find is info on those certain chipsets. any hints on finding out the make/model of this board?
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
500MHz is like last year for me.
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Haha!
It's right now for me!

My first one was an IBM PC 8088 with two 5.25 diskette drives. I finally upgraded the power supply and added a 10MB hard drive. Figured i'd never fill that up!
 
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