How to upgrade PII 450

I know this is a longshot, but you might want to call Dell. For the 450 machines (450 was the split in time when Intel went from P2 to P3), some of the Dell mobos were made to support the newer P3 chips, while others were made to only handle P2s (i don't remember, was it the chipset?). You may have to update the BIOS, but that's the BCS. You may be looking at a new mobo *shrugs*

Althons and Pentiums are just melted rock. Who’s rock is better? Who cares, let’s play some games

You might. It's kind of a long shot. I only know 1 system shipped with that board. BCS is best case scenario (sorry, something i picked up from my g/f ). Speedwise, probably up to 800 (estimate).

Althons and Pentiums are just melted rock. Who’s rock is better? Who cares, let’s play some games

My old Dell P400 could be upgraded with a slot version of the P3 100Mhz FSB all the way up to 1Ghz. It was way too expensive to go about that upgrade though compared to buying all new components that are faster and better today. Nonetheless it only requires a bios upgrade.

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Cool man x is correct, there is no financial reason to choose a p3 upgrade over a tbird overhaul, ESPECIALLY, when you consider the fact he still would have almost a whole working system left to sell after the athlon upgrade.

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

This should be good.


::watches::

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

Either hes busy putting out all the volcano 6c fires he started, or hes desperatly searching for a review site which has a engineering sample of that chip heh.

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

Thanks a lot all for your comments and suggestions.