bus speed

how do you no how much you can up grade your Motherboard cpu and Bus Speed????????????????????????? and tell if you can upgrade at all?

 

Take a look in here

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/98q1/980101/

"how much you can up grade your Motherboard"

.....thing is we're not upgrading MY motherboard and you failed to tell us what type motherboard YOU are dealing with.

Need more info, just post back.......

DS

 

my computer is a gateway p5-166,Pentium/166 tower Socket 7, 24 of ram,and it has a 1.5 hard drive with a 2 g tape drive

 

You would be better off buying new. You aren't going to get much out of it. Maybe 200/233 but those chips are really hard to find now and you really won't notice any speed improvement

 

More ram and/or a larger hard drive would be your best investment if you plan on keeping it.

 

I have one at work, if it's the same it uses proprietary ram and it's damn expensive. Only hold 64 meg max I believe.

 

That litlle bit more info really helps alot........

.......Maybe not excactly what you wanted to hear, but the facts are the facts.

DS

 

That's interesting, I didn't think Gateway used proprietary parts..... Get back to me on that would you brianF, just for my knowledge base.....