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Celeron 466MHZ socket 5 upgrade
Name: Jack Date: November 28, 2003 at 15:27:54 Pacific OS: Win 98 CPU/Ram: Celeron 466MHZ socket 5
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I am interested in upgrading my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop from a Celeron 466MHZ socket 5 processor to anything over 500MHZ. I don't see anything out there in socket 5. Am I stuck with some old mother board technology. Or is there some way to upgrade motherboard and CPU? Any help appreciated. I feel like I own an outdated tin can.
Name: jam Date: November 28, 2003 at 17:34:45 Pacific
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Socket 5 Celeron? I think you're mistaken...socket 5 is WAY old technology of 486s & early Pentiums
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Response Number 2
Name: Smitty Date: November 28, 2003 at 19:58:23 Pacific
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I think that a Celeron of that vintage is a socket 370. And it may be limited to about 500 MHZ.
Good Luck Smitty
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Response Number 3
Name: SkipCox Date: November 28, 2003 at 23:32:27 Pacific
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You guys are right. My Socket 5 board has a P60 sitting in it.
Skip
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Response Number 4
Name: Free Weasel Date: November 29, 2003 at 04:34:09 Pacific
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My socket5 board runs with a 133MHz Pentium but socket7 cpus like my WinChip 200MMX have the same pins but will not work! But there have been a couple of strange cpus who fit in older sockets those days. So i'm not sure if intel also had some of those!
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Response Number 5
Name: x86 Date: November 29, 2003 at 06:31:30 Pacific
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I have a P150 Socket5 very rare and yes the Socket 7 has extra pins over the 5.
Back to the Celeron it is usually PPGA PPGA2 or PPGA FC-PGA1 Socket 370.
http://www.intel.com/support/processors/celeron/
I should imagine you have a PPGA type therefore 533mhz is the best you will find unless the laptop suppoerts FCPGA1
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Response Number 6
Name: bhtooefr Date: December 2, 2003 at 12:14:41 Pacific
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Actually, Socket 5 can be either 296 pin or the more common 320 pin. Socket 7 is 321, however, some Intel Socket 5 cpus will run on both sockets, meaning that the 321st pin isn't very important unless you need dual voltages (AMD).
BTW, there are PPGA to FCPGA adaptors. Keep in mind, 800MHz is the fastest 66MHz FSB Celeron Intel offers, and it's FCPGA.
I do have a question, however. Someone told me that I could get away with a WinChip2 240 on my old Socket 5 P75 laptop. Were they BSing (they sell AMD K6-2+/III+ CPUs)?
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