Upgrading Aptiva 2139-E5U

[Nayan]

Howdy folks,

I have an Aptiva 2139-E5U. My goal is to boost its performance as much as possible.

Is a PIII 800Mhz the fastest processor I can use? If not, what could it be?

Any other tricks I can use to speed things up?

Thanks for the tips!

 

[MichaelD]

That's an IBM, correct? What mobo does it have? That will determine (for the most part) how high you can go. It's going to be hard finding out a lot of info on that mobo if it's proprietary. I went thru that with my Dell. How fast a CPU you can put in there also depends upon the BIOS that mobo has loaded on it right now. It may auto-recognize a 933MHz PIII, it may not. If not, it wont' boot. Do you know what FSB you are running? It's either 100 or 133.

 

[Nayan]

Yes, it's an IBM ...

http://www-1.ibm.com/servlet/support/manager?rs=0&rt=0&org=psg&doc=DETR-3X5HEE

Planar V66XA
Processor/Speed PENTIUM(R)II WITH MMX(TM) 350MHZ
System board chipset Intel 440BX
Front-side bus speed 100MHz

I can't find any BIOS updates on the IBM site.