I scored a PC for about NZ$10.
It's an HP 2260, full specs in the link below.
I've found shops that sell the right kind of RAM and so on, am relaxed about that, but am wondering about possibly replacing the processor. Anyone done this kind of thing?
Does anyone know where I'd begin to look to confirm that my motherboard and CPU will play together? I've done a bit of google action, but am not really getting anywhere.
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My understanding is that they tend to ...
My understanding is that they tend to change the bit where the CPU plugs in pretty regularly, so your chance of finding a chip that fits are pretty low. My guess is that it's back around a Pentium Coppermine era, and that the PIII chips didn't get much faster. So that's like new motherboard, new cpu (maybe new power supply) for an upgrade. There's a little info on the "coppermine" on wikipedia.
(PS -- my home pc was bought at around the time that coppermine was current...)
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At 900Hz, it's a pretty sure bet that ...
At 900Hz, it's a pretty sure bet that it's a PIII coppermine, which according to this has a Socket 370. The fastest chip you can get for that socket is a 1400 (which I presume is not the kind of upgrade you're after?). P4s and AMD chips use different sockets so new motherboard minimum
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Thanks for the info.. but kinda stink! ...
Thanks for the info.. but kinda stink! Oh well, it was so ridiculously cheap if I just buy a whole new PC I haven't lost much, eh.
What you have doesn't prevent you from ...
What you have doesn't prevent you from getting a new case/motherboard/cpu/ram. You could then recycle monitor, keyboard, harddrive (although you'll probably want a bigger one), cdrw, floppy etc. but yeah, you usually can't upgrade all that much.
My hot tip is to make sure you're ...
My hot tip is to make sure you're wearing one of those sexy clip-on anti static wristbands when you do it. They're the oldskool equivilent of musicians in cuffs.