Francois Yenny Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 Hi, I was wondering if any one knew if there was a place to find old Pentium chips. Specifically a PIII chip. The reason I ask is that I have a Dell Precision 220 that with a dual processor mother board, but I had only ordered it with one at the time. I was thinking I could maybe get some more life out of it by adding an identical processor if I could find one. Dell don't have any. Thanks for any insight, Francois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 What speed is the one you have in there now? (I do have some of those oldies sitting in here) Slot 1? ebay is a good place for stuff like that. I'd different upgrading ways if I were you: Either save for a real new machine, or replace the mobo you have with an ECS AMD mobo with a newer Athlon XP CPU which is cheap and would be more powerfull than your dual P3s. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 The cost of upgrading a slot 1 machine is usually more expensive then buying an extremely fast athlon "SYSTEM". For less then 500 USD you can easily build a 2700+ XP system on the nforce2 platform...and thats with a geforce FX video card and 512 megs of DDR. Always keep this in mind when thinking of upgrading older systems. Sometimes its best just to sell/give them to people who can use them, and start over again. The Price/Performance ratio is so high right now (lots of bang for the buck) that upgrading older systems isn't a very effective use of available funds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francois Yenny Posted November 12, 2003 Author Share Posted November 12, 2003 Thanks for the input, I guess you're right... It's just that I regret having saved slightly on the Precision 220 by ordering just one processor when I've read in several places that Max is really well optimised for dual proc machines. As for the speed, I'm going to plug a monitor and keyboard back onto the station to find out, since right now, it's in the backoffice. Francois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francois Yenny Posted November 12, 2003 Author Share Posted November 12, 2003 thanks for the suggestions, I guess you're right that the best thing to do is wait untill I can afford "dream" machine. Francois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 Thinking again about it... that upgrade I suggested would probably force you buy a new case as well which... add the need for a HSF and you'll see it wont make any sense upgrading at all. Still havent said what is your current P3 speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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