what is the highest procc I can update this to

[CoolJou2001]

a friend of my dads has a Gateway P100 with a 100mhz procc. Pentuim. I was woundering if one of the 300mhz upgrade kits that are floating around would work on this thing. also I am woundering where I caould find one. thanx

 

[sundarpn]

depends on the m/b. if its a classic pentium board. oh upgrade kits forget it. better change ur board and processor, will just cost a little more, but worth it.
u could go in for any of the super socket 7 ones, or celerons so that u could use everything u have now and just change the m/b and processor. well an amd k6-2 500mhz processors are dead cheap and even asus pa-5 is really cheap, u could get both say for abt 150 bucks(max).

 

[Viper GTS]

Nope.

Your motherboard almost certainly doesn't support the dual plane voltage necessary to run normal Pentium MMX processors or K6-2/3 CPUs.

Your best bet is either a 166MMX overdrive or a 200MMX overdrive, both of which were designed to work in existing Pentium 100 systems. I believe the 200MMX OD is primarily sold for 133 MHz Pentiums, but IBM says it works fine in their 100 MHz Pentium based M55-2168 (I have one).

Not anything great by today's standards, but a lot faster than a P100.

Viper GTS

 

[CoolJou2001]

I went to this site called Concept Manufacturing they advertise a k62 380 upgrade kit that includes a voltage and multiplyer adapter would this work?
thier web page is
http://conceptmfg.com/

 

[cdrakejr]

The two ways to go are the upgrade route you are looking at and the replacement of motherboard and cpu mentioned above. The price is going to come out close to one another. The thing with the motherboard/cpu replacement is that then you have to generally reinstall all your software and setup any installed cards (video, sound, modems). Not usually difficult but does require some technical knowledge. Going the upgrade route is easier and requires little technical knowledge.

The problem with either one is that everything else is still pretty out of date; hard drive, cdrom, memory, any built-in sound and video, etc. Will be faster but with limitations.

Suggest you check out http://www.evergreennow.com. They also make upgrade kits and have a very helpful site.

Here is a review of one of their upgrades on a P100 computer:

http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/r_evergreen_s400