Tech Support Guy banner

upgrading my CPU

2416 Views 9 Replies 7 Participants Last post by  brite750
I have a Compaq Presario 5838 desktop (purchased new in 1998). It came with a AMD Athlon K7 500MHz processor. I would like to upgrade the CPU to make it faster. I don't want to buy a new system. I spoke with HP and the mother board will only handle up to 1GHz speed. Would it be best to change the CPU to the AMD 1GHz "Thunderbird" or replace the mother board and faster CPU? I am currently running Win98 but will upgrade to XP in the near future.
Status
Not open for further replies.
1 - 1 of 10 Posts
Upgrading's not worth the headache if you're going to XP. You may also have problems with periphials not working with XP and they're not even updating drivers for some older parts. Check your periphials against the approved list at MS for XP.

You got 6-7 years out of your old PC, now use it for target practice. Build or buy a new one. You're going to have to buy a new psu also if you haven't replaced it already. There are already some programs out there that recommend 1 gig cpu or greater. I highly recommend 512 mb of memory if you multitask.
1 - 1 of 10 Posts
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top