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Upgrading an old Pentium system

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Arkitech

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I need to upgrade my wife's PC. She has an Acer brand system with a Pentium processor (I believe its a 300) 64 mb and a 30 gig drive.

I really only need to upgrade the processor and the memory. She rarely plays games and the ones she does play don't require a top of the line video card. I'm not sure what kind of mobo is in the system right now but what processor can I buy to replace the old one that does'nt require purchasing a new board?
 
If it's a PII 300, you may have a few CPU upgrade options. You need to find out more info on the motherboard it uses. Some more ram is certainly something you can do that will cost very little.
 
Yeah. If it's Slot 1 (Pentium II) it could take maybe a 600MHz Katmai PIII (Or even a higher clocked Coppermine if u are lucky). And yeah. get a 256MB stick of Crucial PC133 and that will increase performance dramatically.
 
If I'm not mistaken, P2-300's were the first generation of P2's...
which means it is probably an LX (or worse, FX) chipset.
Do P2-600's work with those (I thought they only went up to 450)?
 
If it's an LX mobo, he may be able to put a Celeron 66 MHz CPU in it. They are available up to 533 in PPGA and 766 in FC-PGA.
 
I said PIII 600. Katmai was just a PII wrapped with SSE. hmmm. That could be an issue if it is LX because PIII Katmai's were only avialable in 100fsb versions. I'm not sure. Doh! I forgot about Celeron's. Yeah. With a Slot-1-PPGA converter, he could eaisly put a 766 Celery in there.
 


<< If I'm not mistaken, P2-300's were the first generation of P2's... >>

was 233. had the old 440FX chips. if she's on a pentium and not a p2, you'll be stuck in an AT case. any upgrade and you'd need an ATX. right?
 
Ah sorry a misread on my part.

<<if she's on a pentium and not a p2, you'll be stuck in an AT case>>

There were ATX Pentium boards... Asus had some I remember. TX97... ah
the good old days.
 
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