Dell Pentium II/266 Upgrade

[Chuck0612]

I have a Dell PII/266/66 bus 440FX chipset with 128 MB RAM...I just bought this machine from a friend for $40. I want to upgrade the CPU to the max this board will take. Can anyone tell me what the max CPU is that I can get for this brd?

Plan on using this machine as a Linux box for my MP3's.

Appreciate your help.

CB

[Marcin]

Are you sure have Intel 440FX chipset ? That version was only on mainboards with Socket 8. You have Slot 1 so I think that is 440 LX.

[Guest]

Well, I went by the specs for this machine at Dells website, so maybe that info is incorrect. I have the cover off and looked at the chipset and on the one chip I see this:

SB823713SB
L7183050
SU1093

Model # of brd --00054170-12461-76R-03Z7 Rev A00

Does this help? Not sure what other numbers would matter on the brd.

CB

[Mixeur]

[Guest]

Thanks for your help. I did buy a PII 333 CPU on EBAY, someone said that the 333 is the fastest CPU for a 66 FSB system brd. So that's what I got.

Thanks

[Vlad The Impaler]

The 440FX was indeed the first PII chipset. I sold several very, very expensive systems with Intel Providence motherboards in them and PII266s. I am an IPI (Intel Product Integrator) and my company is a member of the 'Intel Inside' scheme. The used to send us all the prototypes back then, ES PIIs etc. Happy days.....

The 440FX was non AGP and Mode 4 HDD support if i remember correctly. Who would pay £900 for the board and chip even then and not get AGP??

[Guest]

I am trying to do the same upgrade. Have you get it working?

[Guest]