Re: [TCLUG:4826] Hardware upgrade

["Allie Micka" <allie@visi.com>]

If your motherboard supports it you can probably overclock the processor and
save the cash.  There are usually jumpers on the motherboard that allow you
to tell it which processor you are using.  Basically, you can just tell it
that you're using a faster processor, and it goes right ahead and runs at
that speed.  The only thing that really gives a processor a speed
distinction is that it failed a test of the next speed up (a p120 is rated
as such because it failed tests in normal conditions as a p133).  You can
usually change these normal conditions by adding a cooling fan.

The jumper settings are usually called 'bus speed' and 'multiplier',  but in
my little old Dell p75 had a proprietary motherboard where these were
combined into one jumper that let me specify 'p75', 'p90' or 'p100'  That
computer is still  out running a business somewhere at 100mhz; and my other
p166 computer has been running for over a year without a hiccup
(processor-wise) at 250mhz (3x83mhz).  There's better detailed  information
about the whole thing on the Tom's Hardware Guide site (sorry, don't know a
url).

For most of what I do I have been quite happy with linux on my p133/96 .  It
runs so much better than w98 on my p250/128!

Anyway, good luck & save the $ where ya can...

-Allie Micka

>  Since several  of us are at the moment talking about hardware issues,
>I hope it wouldn't be too off topic to add yet one more...
>  I have a Zeos Pantera P-120 machine, If any of you recall the days
>of Zeos before Micron bought them out (grumble).
>  Anyway, for being a "mere" 120 machine it is still quite fast IMHO.
>  (for a P-120)
>Last time I  checked, I could upgrade it to a P-160 (?) with a pentium
>overdrive
>unit, but that was several months ago, and things have changed alot sense
>then.
>
>   The upshot of this is, I was looking for suggestions for upgrading the
>CPU
>alone, or maybe in tandem with the MB that would still allow me to use my
>existing EDO RAM.  RAM is sorta pricey right now.  I see you guys talking
>about the overclocked Celeron chips and drool, but I gather that would
>require
>at least a new MB, processor, and RAM correct?
>Thanks for any ideas,
>RS
>
>
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