I'm not much of a hardware guy ... I'm not sure about swapping CPU's. From the prior posts it seems you may have the AMD500 k6-2. Maybe all you need is to bump up your RAM. How much RAM do you have now? The Mobo/CPU have served me well. Had an identical box that bit the dust about a month ago. I think it was the power supply. It will be several weeks though before I can part with it, if that is OK. It's the Mobo and RAM ... I need to keep the HD's. Keith Michael Havens wrote: I'm in West Mesa. What could I do with this stuff? Build a new board? Or will this processor/ram fit in this board?? Whatever the outcome of this is I really appreciate the offer! On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:13:48 -0700, keith smith wrote: > I will have an AMD500 K6-2 (IIRR), ATX motherboard, and possibly some > RAM available in about 2 weeks. I'm in east Mesa. If that helps. > > I am running Fedora Core 5 on this AMD500 / 384Mb RAM and 2 - 20Gig > HD's. Running X right out of the box is ok. > > With a little tuning I think it could rock! > > Unless your project is to get the 100Mhz sys running. > > Michael Havens wrote: lshw says that my hd is 38 GB > and that my processor is clocked to 100Mhz. > It also says that the size of it is 500Mhz > > *-cpu > description: CPU > product: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor > vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] > physical id: 4 > bus info: cpu@0 > version: 5.8.12 > slot: Socket 7 > size: 500MHz > width: 32 bits > clock: 100MHz > capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 > pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr > > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:48:47 -0700, JT Moree > wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Michael Havens wrote: >>> I know overclocking the processor is bad but I was thinking that it >>> might >>> be underclocked. How do I see this? >> not neccessarily bad. not needed with modern systems being rather but >> some people just like to push the limits. >> >>> things are slugish. Perhaps I should overclock the processor since I >>> rarely start those pss and things would start quicker thereby reducing >>> the >>> use of the processor. What do you think about this idea? >> >> since you have a k6-3 i don't recommend overclocking. Those procs were >> already clocked pretty high bc amd was playing catch-up with intel. >> >> I do agree with other posters about the bus. get the bus speed up as >> high as you can where the system is stable. Some of the k6 cpus even >> used 75Mhz and 83Mhz bus speeds as a standard. That's about as high as >> you can hope for. What's your processor speed? >> >> Be careful though, some systems and components from this era don't like >> running at those bus speeds. >> >> And get a faster hard drive if possible but that probably means spending >> money and that's a no go for this system. Better to put $$ towards a >> new one. >> >> And lastly you can always install gentoo so that you optimize code for >> k6 instead of running 386 code. How big is your hard drive? >> >> - -- >> JT Morée >> PC Xperience, Inc. >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iD8DBQFFblSf1JwGi/ukQqERAjAhAKDxOsUUwNKUdR44W7EySsl3W0rpTwCgvT69 >> Nb6xItCL9ug5CxNj295rY14= >> =jopj >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > > > -- :~)MIKE(~: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss - - - - - - - Keith Smith - - - - - - - http://travelingcheese.com/search_engine/increase-search-engine-traffic.html - - - - - - - --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.