Hello,I have an amptron 9900a model MB and am trying to find out if it will accept a higher sped processor than AMD k6-2@500mhz cpu.Maybe a duron or something.It is a socket7 chipset,and I cant find enough info on it.I would like to upgrade the processor,but not MB.As I have heard the k6-2 can barely hit 550mhz overclocked.Please can someone shed some light on this for me.Also board says max of 3x 128 ram(sdram slots),but I have 512 and no errors.May not be using it,but bios and windows see's RAM.Any help would be greatly appreiciated.

Well, for starters, Duron is a SocketA processor...you have a Socket7 mobo. I could be wrong but I think the fastest Socket7 cpu made is 550Mhz. You have a K6-2 but there are also K6-3's...which are basically K6-2's with on-chip L2 cache. You'd probably need a BIOS update to run a K6-3. Regardless, I don't think the cost of a processor upgrade would be worth the 50Mhz gain.

Here's a link to your boards specs, FAQ's, BIOS update, manual, etc:
http://www.amptron.com/html/pm9900.html

You've already got plenty of RAM...I don't see the need for more. What video card are ya running? A decent AGP card can boost performance...especially vs a PCI card.

The bottom line is you're pretty much maxxed out...other than possibly a new videocard, I wouldn't throw too much money at it.

Im hating life,Its a gf3 ti200,64ddr.Was hoping the board would take a better cpu.Thanks for the help.Most of what I could decipher is 550 would be the most I can get.I will double check MB jumpers to see if everything jives.May even see about the OC.Be good.

Im hating life,Its a gf3 ti200,64ddr.Was hoping the board would take a better cpu.Thanks for the help.Most of what I could decipher is 550 would be the most I can get.I will double check MB jumpers to see if everything jives.May even see about the OC.Be good.

Well, that's a decent video card.

You can try tweaking your system a bit to try to get the most out of it. Try to run as lean as possible...get rid of all unecessary files...scandisk & defrag often. Keep your drivers current. You can tweak your BIOS settings, but be careful. Record what your settings are before you start. What do you use this PC for & what version of Windows are ya running?

Try this site: http://www.pureperformance.com/

Maybe someone else will have some suggestions....

Thanks for the link.Have been tweaking for some time.Card is agp,even tried new drivers for MB,still not much better.Gta3 plays decent,still better over the 32mb card I took out.BTW always run my games with expl,and sys tray only.Thanks again,Rob.