What upgrades are available for a Pentium III processor without having to replace the motherboard?

Question

I have a Pentium III 800 mHz processor (socket 370). What better processors are there that will work with the motherboard I have?

Answer 1

CPU upgradeability depends upon the front side bus speed with a CPU at 800 MHz you could have ether 100 MHz bus or 133 MHz bus. With the 100 MHz bus you are limited to 850 MHz, you are pretty much at the end of how far you can upgrade. With a bus speed at 133 MHz you have a little more room to upgrade. You could upgrade to 1.0 GHz or maybe up to 1.2 GHz you have to check the manual for the motherboard to see how far you can go.

Answer 2

The improve could be very no longer uncomplicated (and fairly uncommon) getting such previous areas. the cost could additionally be often very extreme besides. it may be lots greater useful (much less puzzling) to enhance the motherboard, memory and cpu. could be lots greater no longer expensive interior the long-term.

Answer 3

P4's and above use sockets 423 (older versions) and 478.

Afraid you are out of luck regarding upgrading your CPU on the mobo.

Answer 4

Possibly a 1 GHz. But Mainboards are very cheap.

Answer 5

without spending money. Try overclocking your PC - lots of articles out there on overclocking pcs. Overclock = tweaking the pc specs to make it fly to the moon.
If you do this, advise u do buy additional PC fans (US$5) to cool down the overclocking heat.

Answer 6

i think you are preaty much stuck were you are at but i dont remember clearly enough to tell you an exact ancer. i will have to go with the most you can hit is 1.0ghz

Answer 7

First you have to say what motherboard you have...