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upgrade motherboards/cpu
Name: dwayne Date: December 13, 2004 at 21:41:56 Pacific OS: WIN XP CPU/Ram: p4 2.8 prescott / 2048mb
Comment:
howdy,
i want to upgrade a friends computer - he has a P2 233mhz processor. I was wondering if these motherboards can take P3's? I cant find the name of the motherboard.
Name: ComputerDude929 Date: December 14, 2004 at 13:45:37 Pacific
Reply:
Depends...if the mobo supports a 100/133MHz FSB, then you should be fine. Let me know the mobo model number and I'll go into more detail.
Computer nut since 1985 and still loving it...
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Response Number 2
Name: Free Weasel Date: December 15, 2004 at 08:56:55 Pacific
Reply:
Try Aida32 or Everest on that computer. Hopefully it tells you at least some things about the board! Otherwise look between or around the card slots for manufacturer and/or name. The name is probably just a group of numbers and letters and maybe very short!
Without knowing which board it is it's hard to tell. If it's one of the very early slot1 boards you may only run 66MHz FSB and the more modern cpu's (newer Pentium 2 or 3) run at 100MHz or the last even 133MHz.
The fastest 66MHz FSB cpu is a Celeron 766MHz but without knowing which board I'm not sure it would run either!
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