Processor Swap

[Christopher White]

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).

RedHat will run on all those platforms, however.  I'm currently running
RedHat 6.1 on a Compaq Athlon 600 MHz, and its so fast it's scary!  The new
GHz Athlon would be running at warp speed on steroids!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: GLoraditch at ci.santa-rosa.ca.us
> [mailto:GLoraditch at ci.santa-rosa.ca.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:56 AM
> To: nblug-talk at lists.sonic.net
> Subject: FW: Processor Swap
> 
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> > Anyone -
> > 
> > I am considering swapping out my Pentium MMX 166 MHz for a 
> Pentium II, or
> > possibly an AMD K-6 2 or newer AMD.
> > 
> > I presume all are Socket-1, capable of being swapped out 
> with the old
> > Pentium.  
> > 
> > Would this: 1) Have any affect with the existing bios 
> (which is noted to
> be
> > a PnP compatible type of bios), and 2) Have any problem 
> with the current
> > installation of Red Hat, which was installed under the 
> existing Pentium
> 166?
> > 
> > Any thoughts/recommendations would be appreciated.  Thanks!
> > 
> > Greg L.
> > 
> > 
> > GLoraditch at ci.santa-rosa.ca.us
>