Wanted

[Thetyim]

I have a spare computer that I would like to upgrade.

It has a 733Mhz Celeron 370 pin at the moment.

Does anyone have a CPU they what to sell.

A Pentium 3 1,33 Mhz would be nice.

[Mr_Happy]

Take a stroll down to Pantip you should have no problem finding one

[Richard-BKK]

Hello Thetyim,

Hope you not running to Panthip directly, as an Intel Pentium III or Celeron (socket 370) 1300Mhz will probably not work on your mainboard.

This because both the Pentium III and the Celeron 1300Mhz are based on the Tualatin core, which works at a lower voltage then your current CPU.

Most chipsets of around Celeron (Coppermine) 733Mhz not have the support for this lower voltage.

Also your mainboard need to support the higher 100Mhz FBS (front bus speed), as I can remember the Intel Celeron (Coppermine) 733Mhz used a FBS of 66Mhz.

With kind regards,

Richard

[Thetyim]

Thanks for reply Richard,

I will not be 'strolling' or 'running' down to Panthip as it is 600km away.

I will check the motherboard (ECS) to see what voltage and FBS it supports.

[stumonster]

yes check your motherboard carefully.

though some of the good socket 370 mobos did end up with a bios upgrade that would allow you to run a 1ghz p III

[francois]

hi'

I had one of these motherboard (well 2 of them ..), they did support from celeron 500 up to PIII 933 ... voltage and chip limitation

the fsb was on auto settings according to the processor, 66 for celeron and 100 or 133 for PIII EB ...

I had the idea to try to find a PIII 1ghz ... easy to find but even with a bios upgrade this could not fit, luckily I checked before for specifications ...

anyway, you could find one of these PIII 900mhz, they are running well, I still use a PIII EB 800 mhz on a machine adn it's running well

cheers

francois

[astral]

Check the web site for you motherboard.

Most will tell you the fastest cpu they will support.

Sometimes you need a BIOS flash upgrade to get the best out of the MB.

Edited October 13, 2004 by astral

[chanchao]

One more consideration: I doubt you will experience a significant gain in speed. Sure the CPU will run somewhat faster, but your memory, disk and video won't. So the performance gain is not all THAT much.

And how much memory do you have installed? If it's less than 256MB then you could get just as significant a gain by putting in some extra memory.

Cheers,

Chanchao