My dad wants to replace the fan/heatsink on an old Slot1 Pentium II CPU. When I was looking, it appeared it might not cost a whole lot more just to get a whole new CPU with a HSF. The question is, the PII is a Slot1, will any Slot1 CPU work in the motherboard? What about a Slot1 Pentium III? I'm guessing the old CPU is about 450 mhz and upgrading to a PIII at 933 mhz would be a nice performance boost if it is possible.
Slot1 CPU's
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Depends on the chipset. Not all slot 1 CPU's will work on all slot 1 motherboards. Why does he want to replace the fan/heatsink? I dont' think there were many differant options anyway.
The fan will stop working after a while of use and he can't just replace the fan because it appears to be customly made to 'clip' onto the heatsink rather than screw in.
How do I find out the motherboard? Is it possible to turn on the PC without a CPU and access the BIOS and stuff? Or will the machine not even turn on without a CPU? I looked in the case and couldn't find the motherboard model or anything. It is an OEM.
Didn't think so (I am not retarded, just double checking), I wasn't sure if the machine would turn on and just give me an error when trying to POST or if the POST tests themselves required the CPU. Thanks, I'll look harder on the board and pop the CPU back in if necessary.
The motherboard model will probably be written on the motherboard somewhere ... or at least there will be some information from whihc you can identify it.
The P-II's didn't run terribly hot, so a lot of them had passive heat sinks -- just a lot of fins and no attached fan. But when it does have a fan, you probably should have one. And they were so common that picking up a new fan that will snap in or snap on ought not to be very hard.
Get a copy of Everest Home and run it. Then read off what it says that the MB identified itself as. A huge majority of the MB's from the Slot1 era were either Intel-made or at least used an Intel Chipset. The 440BX is supposed to be decent, and also was one of the chip sets that supposedly could be used with a wide range of cpu's.
But I had one of those, and it gave me unmitigated Hades trying to game with it. Maybe if all I'd ever done with it was run Spreadsheets and Word Processing, I'd have liked it better! I stripped it down a couple of years back and put all its hardware in a Socket A box. Much more recently, I handed off the empty shell to a nephew to play with. It did have a fairly nice-looking case.
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Get a copy of Everest Home and run it. Then read off what it says that the MB identified itself as. A huge majority of the MB's from the Slot1 era were either Intel-made or at least used an Intel Chipset. The 440BX is supposed to be decent, and also was one of the chip sets that supposedly could be used with a wide range of cpu's.
But I had one of those, and it gave me unmitigated Hades trying to game with it. Maybe if all I'd ever done with it was run Spreadsheets and Word Processing, I'd have liked it better! I stripped it down a couple of years back and put all its hardware in a Socket A box. Much more recently, I handed off the empty shell to a nephew to play with. It did have a fairly nice-looking case.
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Here are some Slot 1's but they prob need fans: http://search.geeks.com/?SearchHandle=D...0&action=1&AnswerHandle=DCCDDICDDCDBDF
Found a fan too: http://www.cables4computer.com/products/individualItem.asp?groupcode=I0606
Definitely do some bios research before buying. Those were trickier times for hardware compatability.
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Found a fan too: http://www.cables4computer.com/products/individualItem.asp?groupcode=I0606
Definitely do some bios research before buying. Those were trickier times for hardware compatability.
m
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