Old processors

[seabat]

OK, I would like to speed up my mothers 'puter without reaching into
my pocket for any dinero. Found some old SIMMs that might fit her
machine but I need some info on CPUs.

Right now she has an unknown brand 75MHz socket 5 on an Asus
PCI/I-P54TP4 rev 1.32 motherboard. I have in my grubby little hand two
CPUs, one is an Intel 166MHZ socket 5/7 and the other is an AMD-K6 -
2/400AFR socket 7.

Can I slip either one of these processors into her machine and of
course reset the jumpers for the bus speed and such, or am I just
spittin' in the wind here and have to spend the tail end of my vast
fortune for another machine?

Any input is much appriciated!

 

[DaveW]

You're out of luck; no go.

 

[MCheu]

OK, I would like to speed up my mothers 'puter without reaching into
my pocket for any dinero. Found some old SIMMs that might fit her
machine but I need some info on CPUs.

Right now she has an unknown brand 75MHz socket 5 on an Asus
PCI/I-P54TP4 rev 1.32 motherboard. I have in my grubby little hand two
CPUs, one is an Intel 166MHZ socket 5/7 and the other is an AMD-K6 -
2/400AFR socket 7.

Can I slip either one of these processors into her machine and of
course reset the jumpers for the bus speed and such, or am I just
spittin' in the wind here and have to spend the tail end of my vast
fortune for another machine?

Any input is much appriciated!

This article might be helpful.

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20010212/

 

[Alex Andra]

from Asus website:
1. Does ASUS mainboard supports AMD K6-2 333MHz CPU?
From the technical perspective, AMD K6-2 333 is engineered to be run at
95MHz bus clock with an internal multiplier of 3.5. Although ASUS P5A series
motherboards can support up to 100MHz in Bus Clock Frequency, current
Pentium®-level-CPU based mainboards can only support bus clock up to 83MHz.
However, you can still run the CPU by setting bus clock to 66MHz with an
internal multiplier of 5.0.

here's the link for the jumper settings:

http://www.asus.com.tw/support/english/techref/amd/k6.aspx


my guess is they both would work, but you'll get
much more juice from the AMD. 5x66 = 330

I tried to find a manual for you, but was unsuccessful.

I don't know a whole lot about this, but I think if you get the
voltage right, and the multipliers come up low, all that happens
is the CPU runs cooler and lasts longer but doesn't attain its
real potential. Compared to the 75 she'll feel like she's
launching missils if the AMD chip works in it.

Good Luck

 

[Mac Cool]

OK, I would like to speed up my mothers 'puter without reaching into
my pocket for any dinero.

Here's some inspiration... I bought an Asus motherboard, 766Mhz Celeron,
64MB memory and power supply for a total of $20 over the last few days.
Last week I bought a 1.8Ghz Celeron system with monitor for $20. There are
deals out there if you look. She is your mom, toss the old piece of crap
she is using and hook her up.

Can I slip either one of these processors into her machine and of
course reset the jumpers for the bus speed and such, or am I just
spittin' in the wind here and have to spend the tail end of my vast
fortune for another machine?

maybe this will help...
manual: http://tinyurl.com/5muv8
http://www.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=5&l3_id=
6&m_id=6&f_name=pci_i_p54tp4.zip~zaqwedc

 

[David Maynard]

from Asus website:
1. Does ASUS mainboard supports AMD K6-2 333MHz CPU?
From the technical perspective, AMD K6-2 333 is engineered to be run at
95MHz bus clock with an internal multiplier of 3.5. Although ASUS P5A series
motherboards can support up to 100MHz in Bus Clock Frequency, current
Pentium®-level-CPU based mainboards can only support bus clock up to 83MHz.
However, you can still run the CPU by setting bus clock to 66MHz with an
internal multiplier of 5.0.

The P5A series is an entirely different motherboard than his PCI/I-P54TP4
and nothing about it applies.

 

[Hamman]

OK, I would like to speed up my mothers 'puter without reaching into
my pocket for any dinero. Found some old SIMMs that might fit her
machine but I need some info on CPUs.

Right now she has an unknown brand 75MHz socket 5 on an Asus
PCI/I-P54TP4 rev 1.32 motherboard. I have in my grubby little hand two
CPUs, one is an Intel 166MHZ socket 5/7 and the other is an AMD-K6 -
2/400AFR socket 7.

Can I slip either one of these processors into her machine and of
course reset the jumpers for the bus speed and such, or am I just
spittin' in the wind here and have to spend the tail end of my vast
fortune for another machine?

Any input is much appriciated!

My god, and i thought me using a dual 200 with 128Mb of ram to host business
webpages was cheap!

Get a cheap system from eBay, a P3 will be less than £30 these days.

hamman