An eldery woman asked me to help her. She has an emachine etower 533id I want to know if I can upgrade the processer. and if so how high can I go. she desn't have the money to get a new machine. I thought maybe get a new (used) chip cheap !! bestbigdon@yahoo.com

You're not gonna be able to upgrade the processor to anything worthwhile. Sorry, but emachines are made to be replaced. If it's so slow, and she doesn't have the money, pop some more RAM in that bad boy! Take her to 256M, and the difference (to her) will be night and day. MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby!

http://parts.emachines.com/emachines/inquiry.asp You can email Emachine here and request the system specs on that board. That will tell you if you can add any faster processor. The maximum amount of Ram it takes is 256 Here are some of the specs: Modem: Modem w/ Conexant Chipset 232 Audio: CS4280 3D PCI Built-In MB: MB Anaheim-2 (ICHO+CS4280) 511 CPU: CPU Intel Celeron 533 PPGA CPEMIN111478 Memory: RAM SD-64MB PC100 MEEM524064MB HDD: HDD 15.3GB EIDE, 3.5" 1319 Prim CD Model: DVD Samsung SD-608 (8x) 552 FDD Model: FDD Samsung SFD-321B 559-LANTRA Keyboard Model: KB BTC 5000A(6-Key/Internet) KBEM568BT500 Bezel: Chassis 633ids Lantra CAEM95300000 Video: Intel Direct AGP 3D shared memory Built-In Power Supply: PS ILSAN ISP-120S, 120Watts 944 Speaker: Speaker 2.5Wx2 Samsung SP-12 570 Mouse: Mouse Logitech M-SAS51 MSEM571LOG51 CPU Fan Type: pga 370 - cpu fan 947 FDD Button: 110598 for FDD SFD-321-B/K, ivory, Lantra bezel

The Anaheim-2 mobo that's in the 533id will only support up to a 600MHz Celery http://www.e4allinc.info/dir1/support/max_cpu.htm ...,I wouldn't even bother. As heropsycho posted, up the ram to give some life to that aging dinosaur. (The computer, not grandma!)

thanks for the help all . I was afraid I wasn't going to get much better... but I will take the advice and max out the ram . !!! thanks again this is a GREAT SITE !!! bestbigdon@yahoo.com

No problem. Don't forget to set the computer's role to Network Server to improve disk access, and set her virtual memory to min and max the same...probably 512M would work and a fairly safe choice in case she gets into anything more system intensive. MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby!