Help in upgrading my AMD 2200+

[pilgrim2u]

Help in upgrading my AMD 2200+
Compaq 6000z
Bestec 250 PS

I have a FIC AM 37 MB
I think mine is 266 FSB
Socket A

The FIC web site says a 2600+ thoroughbred has been tested

I am having a hard time finding the 266 FSB chips, many 333 FSB chips and many Barton chips at 2600.
Will a faster FSB 333 chip or a Barton Chip work in my MB?
Wrong pins?
What would happen if I put CPU too powerfull in this MB...FRY????

Where to buy?
Box unit??

Help a newbie in upgrading...if its worthwhile

I have 1 gig of ram in this pc now, I also have a AGP card and a TV tuner card.
mainly heavy web surfing, and I use this as a PVR

No......games on my PC

thanks

 

[imported_Kiwi]

There are various "degrees" of improvement possible on a three year old (three to four, I'm guessing) PC, but upping the processor from a 2200 to a 2600 is likely to offer the least return per dollar of anything. Swapping a 5400 rpm IDE Hdd with 2 MB of buffer for a 7200 rpm Hdd with an 8 MB buffer would gain you a lot of improved performance you could feel every time you accessed the storage system.

You already have enough RAM in total that you wouldn't see a speed improvement with the next increment there. Even if the FIC motherboard offered access to the multiplier so you could use a Mobile XP processor, and I don't think yours does that, you should be able to overclock your existing cpu to a 2600's speeds anyway -- once again, if that was an overclocking BIOS features mainboard. It might be.

In order to run the fastest Socket A cpu's, you have to use a board that runs 400 MHz FSB speeds, and fast RAM to match. That would be a new MB, new cpu, new RAM .. you see the direction here, I'm sure. If that much is going to be replaced, and you are still a year and a half out of the running for today's standard, you should skip past the high end of XP's and join the A64 world.


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