Well, in general companies like Compaq and the like bundle the MB with a CPU that maxes it out or comes very close. Your MB probably only supports up to a 750 or possibly up to an 800 or even 850 but upgrading to an 800 or 850 woulnd't really be worth your while. This is just speaking from my experience.
that...really is quite ridiculous...a MB will not be maxed out with a duron 800...although the bios may prevent you from upgrading the chip although i highly doubt it. one way to check is to see if there ar ehigher end models of presario that are in the same family as yours, then you'll know if you can upgrade the cpu or not. duron FSB is only 100mhz, the 200mhz comes from using DDR ram which i'm not sure if you have or not. most motherboards support both Athlon adn durons (100/133 FSB) but once again, there may or may not be firmware which prevents you from using such a chip. my suggestion is to fiund a friend with a faster chip and borrow it and see if it runs in yoru computer, but make sure you reinstall the heatsink properly otherwise you might end up buying yoru friend a new chip
a 200 mhz chip is really just 100mhz running on DDR bus. a Duron is capable at running at both 200mhz and 100mhz, so yes it wil work.
cramstad, if you think about it logically, if compaq decided to bundle cpu's with motherboards they'd have to churn out 5-10 different motherboard models.
Originally posted by mr.FU
cramstad, if you think about it logically, if compaq decided to bundle cpu's with motherboards they'd have to churn out 5-10 different motherboard models.
I understand what you're saying....it just usually turns out that the chip they bundle is usually only 100Mhz or so off from the max that the MB can handle. Is this ALWAYS true?...no.
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Mt_GoatHead Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin)Icrontian
edited October 2003
Look in the bios to see if it has the option to run 133 (266 DDR) since your PC133 RAM is working well in it. Then if it does support 133 (266 DDR) I would try to find a Athlon Thunderbird between 1 Gig and 1.4 Gig and use a better heatsink to accomodate the extra heat. Generally a board will support up to the maximum of a certain series of chips. Most boards that can run Durons will run Athlons also. Since it was a 750 Duron with SD memory I am willing to bet that it was from the same period as the old T-Birds (not to be confused with T' Breds). The later XP (Palamino) Athlons were all made to run with DDR memory. And that washow I arrived at my assumption of it's max.
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It may be but I don't make this stuff up.
cramstad, if you think about it logically, if compaq decided to bundle cpu's with motherboards they'd have to churn out 5-10 different motherboard models.
I understand what you're saying....it just usually turns out that the chip they bundle is usually only 100Mhz or so off from the max that the MB can handle. Is this ALWAYS true?...no.