| Author |
Message |
james romanow
| | Posted on Friday, October 8, 2004 - 12:23 pm: | |
Anybody know what the upgrade limit is to a K7 motherboard four years old? I've got an AMD 600 Mhz in a Socket A board that was purchased specifically to upgrade. The board says up to "1Ghz +" I'm thinking of trying a 1.3 or 1.4 Duron. But I can buy 1.6 and 1.8s for the same price.
I presume I need to upgrade my memory if I do this?
Any thoughts? |
Tim Spicer
| | Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 7:45 am: | |
I have an HP Pavilion 8756C with a P3 866GHz processor. I was given a P3 1.13GHz FCPQA2 256K Cach Tualatin processor. The motherboard is a Mercury GA/810E. I have tried installing the new processor and although the computer turns on, it will not boot anything. Is this new processor compatable? Is there a driver or BIOS that I need to download? This would be a freebee for me if I can get it to work. Any words of wisdom out there? |
Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 8:03 am: | |
Mercury GA/810E motherboards are not compatable pin for pin with Tualatin CPU's. Power Leap makes an adaptor for Socket 370 to Tualatin but I doubt the 810E chipset will be compatable with the 1.13 P3. You would be better off getting a newer 815 Tualatin ready chipset mainboard and swapping the 810 board out. |
