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Upgrading my PC, do's and dont's?

MrJoeSoap · 2003-03-03 22:17:57

Hello, good people. I have decided to update my Gateway G6 PC. It has a Pentium 2 350mhz processor and 64mb of Ram and thats where I want to start. Can anybody help me because I have a very limited technical know-how and I would like to upgrade to 128mbs and a pentium 3/4 600mhz+. Will this cost me much and is it hard to…

03-03-2003 11:17pm

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MrJoeSoap

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Hello, good people. I have decided to update my Gateway G6 PC. It has a Pentium 2 350mhz processor and 64mb of Ram and thats where I want to start. Can anybody help me because I have a very limited technical know-how and I would like to upgrade to 128mbs and a pentium 3/4 600mhz+. Will this cost me much and is it hard to do myself? I have a friend whom Im sure will help and he has quite a good knowledge of PC's. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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#2 03-03-2003 11:35pm

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First thing to do is read your mother board manual. As far as I know your board is at most an slot1 which has fsb of either 66 or 100 Mhz at most, which will give you a PII450/500 if its a 100 Mhz. Your memory is probably PC100 or PC133 sd ram. You need to know which. Once you know the memory type there is no problem as long as you have a spare slot. With regard to costs you should pick up a PII500 and the memory for under 60 euro?

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#3 03-03-2003 11:45pm

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Moved to tech. Read the hw tweaking/modding charter please.

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#4 04-03-2003 8:57am

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If you are unsure about you RAM just buy the PC133. If the system requires it will just run at 100MHz anyway and the price difference shouldn't be more than a couple of €.

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#5 05-03-2003 6:47am

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If you are unsure about you RAM just buy the PC133. If the system requires it will just run at 100MHz anyway and the price difference shouldn't be more than a couple of €.

1st or all, dont do this! The board you have is an intel BX (350's are usually 100fsb), which will not post with PC133. PC100 only unless you run an older 66fsb chip or celeron.

Depending on the revision of the board, you may be able to run a 700 or even 800Mhz cpu, but only on a 100fsb. And those chips are VERY hard to get

when you boot your PC, go to bios and note the 1st group of characters before the decimal point in your BIOS number.

Go to intel.com and put the number in the search engine. it should giev you the board that gatteway have used and thus the max CPU you can use

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#6 05-03-2003 11:27am

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Go to crucial.com and use the memory selector tool to find out what kind of RAM your system can take. It knows about all the major branded PCs.

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#7 07-03-2003 10:08pm

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Thanks for all the advice. I got a PC100 64mb in Maplin and it works fine. Cheers.

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