CPU upgrade

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The Seabat

Ok, now don't start laughin', but I have an old NEC computer here
with an Intel motherboard and 200MHz socket 7 Intel chip. Here are
the specs:

CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Code Name P55
Specification Intel Pentium MMX
Family / Model / Stepping 5 4 3
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Package Socket 7
Technology 0.35µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX
CPU Clock Speed 198.9 MHz
Clock multiplier x 3.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 66.3 MHz
Bus Speed 66.3 MHz
L1 Data Cache 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32
Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32
Bytes line size

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Intel
Motherboard model
BIOS vendor Intel Corp.
BIOS revision 1.00.12.DN0R
BIOS release date 07/07/97
Chipset Intel 7030 rev. 2
Southbridge Intel 82371 (PIIX3) rev. 1

It's got 64MB of RAM which I would double if this switch works

What I need to know is can I slap an AMD 800MHz socket 7 chip into
this puppy and breathe new life into it? Or am I looking at a big
pile of doo-doo if I try it?

Thanks for info.
 
Short answer:

It is a pile of do-do and no, you can't put an AMD CPU in an Intel MB.

-g
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You must be young. Socket 7 mainboards can accept AMD's K6 CPU
chips. The K6 cpus only go up to 200Mhz. If the OP has a Super Socket
7 mainboard, depending on it's revision, he could use an AMD K6-2, or
K6-3 CPU, (as well as Intel socket 7 Pentiums), but neither are 800Mhz
speeds, He'd have to at least get an Athlon based mainboard for 800Mhz
speed.
 
Not too young but young doing my own builds. My first build was 1998, all
Intel. Before that, I bought gateway, or compaq, etc.

With my gateway, I tried what the OP is trying. Plugged in a faster cpu,
and eventually had to buy serial ports, the on board ones were too slow.

However, it did not help much. What changed my mind is my company had a
video presentation, I was home, went to the webpage and it said the video
will start in like 10 minutes. Meanwhile, people were posting questions to
be asked.

When the video started, I got a winblows dialog box that said something
like, 'your cpu is not fast enough to process this video'.

-g
 
geoff said:
Short answer:

It is a pile of do-do and no, you can't put an AMD CPU in an Intel MB.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA

What a load of rubbish. AMD only stopped being interchangeable with the
introduction of Slot 1 which was several years after they entered the
CPU market.
 
geoff said:
Not too young but young doing my own builds. My first build was 1998, all
Intel. Before that, I bought gateway, or compaq, etc.

With my gateway, I tried what the OP is trying. Plugged in a faster cpu,
and eventually had to buy serial ports, the on board ones were too slow.
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You really don't have a ****ing clue do you?

Serial ports are serial ports. THey've been the same speed since the
early 90's when the high speed UART became the norm.
However, it did not help much. What changed my mind is my company had a
video presentation, I was home, went to the webpage and it said the video
will start in like 10 minutes. Meanwhile, people were posting questions to
be asked.

When the video started, I got a winblows dialog box that said something
like, 'your cpu is not fast enough to process this video'.
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That's because you didn't, and obviously still, don't have a clue.
 
That was already corrected, but we need you back here rod, your smart ass
style makes everything right again.

-g
 
Save your strength, it's not Rod.

Then it makes one wonder why a group like this brings out the nut jobs . . .

-g
 
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