Subject: Help..upgrade options on older PII 266mhz machine
Name:
Josh Date: 1/17/2001 4:35:11 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 24.4.253.20 Message:
I have a question and I'm sure this is asked all the time but I'm getting a hand-me down dell optiplex that I wanted to network to my amd k6 III machine...The thing is this dell is a pentium II 266mhz machine and I wanted to know if I could swap in a pentium II 450mhz or maybe a celeron 450mhz or higher without having to change out everything else (mainly the motherboard)...I don't want to get into a lot of expese since it will be strictly a internet machine...probably more for just tinkering around than anything else but I noticed that pII cpus aren't to badly priced with the p3 out p4 being out. But I do understand that the 440LX chipset may be holding me back...And from looking on dells site they say nothing to the effect that their flash bios update will support more processors but it may but they don't say that explicitly...I included the specs from their site...I'm not really familiar with the intel stuff as much as amd but since I got this system at a good price I might as well do something with it. That's assuming that I don't need a motherboard swap...I'd appreciate any insights as to my options are if there are any related to cpu here...
actual specs below this particular unit is a 266mhz
General
Microprocessor type
Intel® Pentium® II microprocessor with MMX™ technology
Microprocessor speeds
233, 266, 300, or 333 MHz
Internal cache
32 KB (16-KB data cache, 16-KB instruction cache)
L2 cache memory
512-KB pipeline burst, 4-way set-associative, write-back SRAM
Math coprocessor
internal to the microprocessor
Microprocessor slot
1
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System Information
System chip set
Intel 82440LX PCI/AGP
Data bus width
64 bits
Address bus width
32 bits
DMA channels
8
Interrupt levels
15
Flash EPROM (BIOS)
2 Mb
System clock
66 MHz (matches external processor speed)
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Expansion Bus
Bus type
PCI (2.1-compliant) and ISA
Bus speeds
PCI: 33 MHz
ISA: 8.33 MHz
PCI expansion-card connectors:
Low-profile chassis
2 (1 PCI connector and 1 ISA connector share an expansion-card slot)
Midsize chassis
3 (1 PCI connector shares a card-slot opening with an ISA connector)
Mini tower chassis
5 (2 PCI connectors share card-slot openings with ISA connectors)
ISA expansion-card connectors:
Low-profile chassis
2 (1 ISA connector and 1 PCI connector share an expansion-card slot)
Midsize chassis
3 (1 ISA connector shares a card-slot opening with a PCI connector)
Mini tower chassis
4 (2 ISA connectors share card-slot openings with PCI connectors)
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NIC
NIC
integrated (on standard system board) or optional on EM system board; 3Com® PCI 3C905 network controller, operating at 10 or 100 Mbps
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Memory
Architecture
64-bit (non-ECC) or 72-bit (ECC), noninterleaved
DIMM sockets
3
DIMM capacities
16-, 32-, 64-, and 128-MB ECC or non-ECC SDRAM
Minimum RAM
16 MB
Maximum RAM
384 MB
BIOS address
F0000h
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