Upgrading a Pentium 2 to Pentium 3?

[adamb10]

Hello,

Your all gonna think Im an idiot for this but whatever. I have a spare P2 400mhz pc lying around running Windows ME. What I would like to do is upgrade it to a Slot A PIII if possible.

The PC is a Compaq Presario 4880

 

[quantumsheep]

That would require a new motherboard. Not worth the trouble. Or the mony to try and track one down.

Not true! You could find a Slot 1/Socket 370 adapter which would allow you to use Pentium 3 chips in a Slot 1 motherboard. However, finding one of those might be quite hard these days!

 

[adamb10]

The only problem I have is if the Mobo would accept Slot 1 P3's. I cant find any data on the board.

 

[quantumsheep]

The only problem I have is if the Mobo would accept Slot 1 P3's. I cant find any data on the board.

Is there even such thing as Slot 1 P3s? The only way i could get a P3 in my Slot 1 was via a Slot 1 - Socket 370 adapter.

 

[adamb10]

http://search.ebay.com/Slot-1-Pentium-3_W0QQfromZR40

Yeah, I'd say theres a such thing.

 

[quantumsheep]

http://search.ebay.com/Slot-1-Pentium-3_W0QQfromZR40

Yeah, I'd say theres a such thing.

That's weird, first time i've ever heard of them :-\. Looks like i might be able to get my really old Slot 1 Celeron 466 working again!

 

[adamb10]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pentium-III-450Mhz-CPU-512KB-Cache-Slot-1-Pentium-3_W0QQitemZ140082453726QQihZ004QQcategoryZ14292QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

So cheap, I could buy one just to test if P3's work in this pc.

System Specs:

Compaq 03F0h Mobo
Northbridge Intel i440BX/ZX rev. B1
Southbridge Intel 82371 (PIIX4) rev. 02
160MB ram
AGP 2X Graphics

 

[quantumsheep]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pentium-III-450Mhz-CPU-512KB-Cache-Slot-1-Pentium-3_W0QQitemZ140082453726QQihZ004QQcategoryZ14292QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

So cheap, I could buy one just to test if P3's work in this pc.

System Specs:

Compaq 03F0h Mobo
Northbridge Intel i440BX/ZX rev. B1
Southbridge Intel 82371 (PIIX4) rev. 02
160MB ram
AGP 2X Graphics

I reckon a P3 800 with 512 ram and a Radeon 9200 PCI will get me a nicely working system that can play Warcraft 3

 

[adamb10]

The problem with that is this board cant support 512mb of ram. This board is either maxed out in terms of ram or it can go up to like 256 or 300 something MB. This is why I need some kind of data sheet on the motherboard.

 

[adamb10]

I found a neat article and the chipset in the board accepts Pentium III chips but it trips me up that it also accepts a max. of 1GB of ram which I know is not true for this board.