Here's a short question from a newbie that is relatively quick to pick up on things. Please take a look at it and leave me a note if you can.
Presently running this system:
HP Pavilion 4550Z with
MEB-VM motherboard (sometimes referred to as an Asus or sometimes Falcon)
HP Part Number: 5184-2705
Celeron (Mendocino) 466MHz 128k Cache
440/ZX rev. 03 chipset
Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.D
Rev. 1.10 6/25/99
Want to upgrade to P3. I already have a particular P3:
Pentium III (Coppermine) 1000MHz (will fit the PGA370 socket on the board)
256k Cache, SL4C8
You may search for the User Manual for the Asus MEB-VM. You may find it here:
http://www.motherboards.org/files/manua ... vm-101.pdf
(This isn't it. This mobo is has the 440/BX chipset. My board has the 440/ZX.)
Can I just put the processor in the board and fire it up, or will that potentially fry something?
If I can't upgrade to the above P3, I'm wondering what is the fastest P3 I can put in it?
I've done just as much homework on this as I can dig up being a newbie and all. I'm wondering if someone out there with a little more experience can help out. Please help.
Please help newbie do P3 upgrade for MEB-VM
- martini161
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Re: Please help newbie do P3 upgrade for MEB-VM
if you seat the procesor correctly and put on the heatsink you should be fine. no personal experiences with p3's though
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Re: Please help newbie do P3 upgrade for MEB-VM
I heard that it will work with a 733MHz P3. Is making the change going to be worthwhile?
- martini161
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Re: Please help newbie do P3 upgrade for MEB-VM
if it were me personally i would stop putting money into that rig and start saving for a new one. for 5 or 6 hundred dollars you can build a pc that can blow that thing out of the water in every way imaginable
Dan:3Martin:3 "my manhood is so big if i put it on the keyboard it would stretch from A to Z!"-Anonymous
Re: Please help newbie do P3 upgrade for MEB-VM
I'd stop tossing money at it. For a couple of hundred you can throw in a P35 board and an E-2180 with a decent set of ram and it'd put that rig in the dirt.
- stopthekilling77
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Re: Please help newbie do P3 upgrade for MEB-VM
Agreed. if youre going to spend money on this machine, the most bang for your buck will be in replacing your motherboard, ram, and CPU. if you went with a basic board youre looking at $50, ram $35-40 for a 2Gb kit, and that E2180 dual core pentium would run just $70. for ~$155 or more you would see a REAL "worthwhile" change.Methious wrote:I'd stop tossing money at it. For a couple of hundred you can throw in a P35 board and an E-2180 with a decent set of ram and it'd put that rig in the dirt.
thats just my 2 cents though
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MS LXM-00001 keyboard
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Re: Please help newbie do P3 upgrade for MEB-VM
Thanks for all the advice. I've got 3 computers. I just installed Ubuntu on this one and my fastest machine. Whenever I try something new I like to do it to this one first. If something goes wrong, I'll just reinstall the operating system. But I'm afraid to do anything to my fast machine, because I risk losing data, or not being able to undo something. I can get a P3 700/256/100 for around $12. I don't mind spending a little money even if would only make the thing twice as fast. It takes about 2:45 minutes to start up. I timed one operation on both. The fast machine took 6 seconds the slow one 45. All the same, I like having a cheapo machine to experiment on. I really am enthusiastic about Linux, but I'm still just a newbie and I often find myself making mistakes, or just trying something that is potentially dangerous.