I have a AMD-K7 2100, 512 MB RAM (DDR 333) and nVidia Gforce 4400 I would like to increase the power of my pc. Possibles ways are: 1) substitute CPU for one belonging to the same family. For instance AMD K7 2800. Are they out of catalog, or are still marketeable?. The current Sempron 754, are compatible? 2) Substitute the mother board for a, say, Socket 939 and get a new AMD 64 Athlon 3200 In this case, danger is if the other components are "usable" in the new mobo, and if the RAM will be enough or has to be increasaed to 1GB or even substited 3) Overclock the current CPU (it has a new fan, formatting pictures caused the CPU to spontaneous halts caused by heat. I am concerned about that, but I see there are forums devoted to that, so... it has to work! thanks thanks thanks santiago

can you be more specific about the model - is it AMD Athlon 2100xp ? If so it has 266mhz FSB. I think probably highest you could get with 266 fsb is 2400xp, which is not worth upgrade. I think athlon 2800xp would be 333 fsb i believe. Check your mobo, it might do 266 and 333 mhz fsb, but more likely not if mobo is same age as the cpu. You would probably need to upgrade ram from pc2100/266mhz to pc2700/333 mhz. That assumes you have DDR ram. athlon 2100xp is socket a / socket 462. A '754' cpu would not fit mobo. Athlon xp processors are now quite rare new.

just noticed you already have 333mhz ram. That makes me wonder if '2100' is the actual speed of your current processor in mhz as opposed to the model number.

current motherboard make/model? This space for rent

mobo ============================ mobo: ASUS VIA KT400/KT333 Accompanying manuals say ASUS A7V333-X VIAKT333Chipset DDR333 November 2002 mobo Manual also states : Socket A for AMD Athlon XP/Athlon/Duron up to 2.8 GHz+ 333 MHz FSB support Chipset Northbridge VIA KT333 Southbridge VIA VT8235 Memory 3 x DDR DIMM sockets ===================== CPU AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2100+ Driver... amdk7.sys ========================== thanks santiago

my girlfriens computer is a av7333-x and is running a 2500+ barton and that board will support at least a 3000, she is running pc3200, but it is only running at 333 instead of 400, she is also running a nvidia 6200 256 meg video card her onboard sount toll we get an audigy, and a 120 gig maxtor hard drive...her system is quite fast and stable