Socket 5: Tuning Old PC Systems

Tuning Instead Of Disposing: PCs With Socket 5, Continued

To give you an example, we managed to equip a computer from 1995, fitted with a Pentium 75 on a socket 5 AT motherboard (Intel's 430FX chipset), with a 400 MHz processor and additional main memory, with the following result: the overall system performance boosted up to 150 percent simply by increasing the CPU clock from 75 MHz to 400 MHz (550 percent!) and the memory clock!

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