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VipersWraith   06-07-2003 at 05:28:44 AM

Hi, I currently have a Compaq presario. It's a 5000 series I believe, and I think its a spitfire(?) motherboard. I've wanted to upgrade my proccesor but I was wondering what's the best one I could stick in here. I haven't been able to find out anywhere. And I'm halfway new to all this upgradeing biz so. Thanks for any help :)

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scottkli   06-07-2003 at 09:39:38 AM
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Check this site:
http://www.geek.com/procspec/amd/k7select.htm

This is a system from 2000 I think.
From the information on this site it seems you can go as high as the 950mhz Duron, maybe into the 1ghz range but I'm not sure. It might also support some low end Athlon Tbirds up to 1ghz I think.
If you stay in the (100mhz x2) or 200mhz fsb range everything should be alright, I believe the multiplier is all that is adjusted for the CPU when you install a new one. Ex.[3.5x200=650; 5.0=1000]. Since your not messing with the FSB settings nothing should be getting overclocked and stop working. Only thing I'm not real sure about is how high the CPU multiplier will go on those boards. I know on some older Asus boards a Bios Update was needed to accept the AMD XP chips. Might ask someone else before buying a new chip and trying it.

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VipersWraith   06-07-2003 at 08:00:22 PM
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I'm kind of confused, what makes them compatible or not. I was thinking as long as the socket types are the same, it seems that it would work. And if your motherboard doesn't support that high of a FSB, don't proccessors have multiple speeds they can adjust to? Sorry, i've only been looking into this stuff for about the last month or so, heh.

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VipersWraith   06-08-2003 at 04:17:58 PM
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Does anyone else have anything they could add to this?

Thx guys.

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