Want to Upgrade my AMD K6 processor...

[mdirollo]

Ok, I know it's probably not worth it is my sister's machine hand neither she (nor I) have the bucks to buy a new pc. This is a Compaq presario 5345 that came with Win98 and an AMD K6 400 mhz processor. I upgraded the RAM to the max (384MB PC100 SDRAM) and also sucessfully upgraded the OS to Win XP Home Edition. Now I want to upgrade the processor as well (figure I can pick one up cheap on ebay). Compaq tells me that the maximum upgrade that the motherboard will accept a 475mhz K6-2 chip - which would only grant an increase in of 75 mhz in the clock speed - and hardly seems worth the effort.

Any advice on this would be GREATLY appreciated.

[gshv]

See if you can upgrade to K6-III processor. K6-III 450 will as fast as K6-2 550.

Gennadiy

[D.8080]

An upgrade would be to buy a "new" pc, I mean maybe to upgrade to a better equipment bought second hand off eaby or similar.

I'd advise for a K7 or Athlon/Duron under or around 1 Ghz, this way you could keep your RAM; the problem is if you have an ATX motherboard and case, otherwise you'd have to buy new ones (as cheap as 30€/35$), or again second hand. There are lots of cpu+mobo for really not much, used stuff but working.


If you keep your HD, RAM and case, maybe you can make it without a lot of cash.


If you really have no money to invest than go for that processor, 75 Mhz are always welcome, but it won't make an extraordinary change.

[CPUShack]

If the mobo will accept a 475 (5x95) it will also accept a 500 (5x100) if it has the 100MHz bus of course.

But I am with Genna, a K6-III 450 will be a good boost in speed,

[bacterio]

overclock it, it will cost no money if you have a good heatsink+fan. Another thing I recommend you is to install windows 2000 (sp4), because windows xp consumes lot's of cpu if you don't configure it well