Processor Swap

[Christopher White]

Yes, I've used Evergreen upgrades.  I've upgraded a Pentium 100 to 333,
among others.  The Evergreens work OK with Linux.

The problem is that the Evergreen 333 is about as expensive as an AMD K6-2
500 and Tyan S1598, and you get a heck of a lot better motherboard with the
Tyan.  It's just the memory you'll have to worry about after that. :-)

The Evergreen won't run as fast as a native chip on a modern motherboard,
either.  And with the 333 you may have to flash your bios (I did with a
Gateway P100) with the bios fix supplied with the chip.

More things to think about. . . .


> -----Original Message-----
> From: frankb at efball.com [mailto:frankb at efball.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 1:29 PM
> To: nblug-talk at lists.sonic.net
> Subject: Re: Processor Swap
> 
> 
> } The Pentium 166 is Socket 7.  A Pentium II is Slot 1.  
> They're incompatible.
> } 
> } An AMD K6-2 requires a Super 7 motherboard (the memory bus 
> will run at 100
> } MHz unless you get one with a VIA chipset that will allow 
> you to use your
> } old memory [non-PC100] by jumping the bus down to 66 MHz).  
> The AMD Athlon
> } uses Slot A, which is different from Slot 1.
> } 
> } You're going to have to get a new motherboard (I reccommend 
> an AMD K6-2 500
> } MHz with the Tyan S1598 motherboard; I've used this 
> combination several
> } times; it's the best bang for not a lot of bucks).
> 
> Evergreen sells upgrade processors for Pentium I machines.  I 
> think they
> have a 333MHz part, which is really some AMD K6.  They got a web page
> somewhere.  I have a 200 MHz Evergreen processor in a old Pentium 90.
> At 200 MHz I got bus errors because the bus speed was 
> increased 10%, but
> it works great at 180MHz (a limitation of my motherboard).  
> If you want
> a cheap solution check it out.
> 
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com
>    work: (707) 794-4168        home: (707) 538-3693 
>