Slocket experience anyone?

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Slocket experience anyone?

December 19, 2004, 01:03:28 PM

I'm trying to help out a friend with an ancient Gateway 3100 E series computer from 1998. Right now it has a factory 440LX mobo, 333 mhz PII, and 128 mb sdram. He running XP pro (very slow, but stable). In interest of keeping this computer as stone cheap as possible, I've looked into getting a slocket adapter and running a celeron processor. My question is whether or not it will work on this board, as it has jumpers for the multiplier. The jumpers only support up to a 333mhz processor (5x multiplier). Does anyone know if the slocket with, say a 766 celeron, would work on this old board?

Re: Slocket experience anyone?

Reply #1 – December 19, 2004, 01:28:59 PM

Why not just replace the mobo? I would imagine you could find an old P-III or P-4 motherboard as cheap as dirt.

Re: Slocket experience anyone?

Reply #2 – December 19, 2004, 01:37:26 PM

I can't tell ya much, because I avoid Intel like the plague now that I'm no longer being paid to repair PCs, but this might help ya:

http://www.powerleap.com/SlotWonder.html

Can't tell ya whether or not it would work with your specific application, but I remembered PowerLeap and figured I'd try to give ya a place to start from. Good luck.

EDIT: While I don't have any specific experience with that product, I have used stuff like it before and had success with it.. so I wouldn't say those upgrade products are a complete waste. As always, YMMV.

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Reply #3 – January 06, 2005, 06:01:07 AM

windows xp + 128 mb= NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lol 256 or 512 would help i have a amd 750 with 512 and exp....AWESOME better than my amd 2200+ with 256 which is extremely sad lol