I have a Intel Pentium 3 933 and 256 of PC 133 ram, i have a Compaq 06C0h board and i was wondering what is the highest cpu i can put in it. I dont really want a celeron, do you think it could handle a Pentium 4 and if so how big?
Thanks,
John

Your mobo can only support P3's of the same core as the one you have now. Depending on what that is, you may be able to get a P3 between 1-1.5 GHz, but your gain in speed probably wouldn't be worth the price. You'd need a different board to support a P4.

I would strongly recommend that you go out and buy an AMD Motherboard and CPU. You can buy a nforce2 chipset motherboard that is made by Abit, I think for $100.00 or a little more and then put an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ and your system will fly and will be able to handle anything. Think about it. You can basically have a system under $160.00 but since this mobo supports DDR RAM you will have to buy the ram as well. so I will say Around $200.00 you will have a nice system.

Totaly agree with Overclocker Get a AMD system with a Athlon XP you wan't regret it.

P3 board have a socket of 370 pins for the cpu & a P4 have 478 pins cpu's.
AMD got 462 pins cpu's.

BTW:Every body that know's AMD will tell you At the same Clock speed AMD is 16% faster the a Pentium 4.

Oh! i forgot if you buy a new system go with DDR memory better and faster 2 time faster then the old S-Dram memory's.

if money is on problem go with a barton 3000+ 512 cache and an asus a7n8x deluxe and ddr400 corsair