upgrading Pent2 300

My old system is a Pent2 300Mhz. The mainboard is a Gigabyte GA686LX slot 1.
Does anybody know where I could find a list of CPU's that would be suitable for my mainboard?
Given its age now, it should be possible to get a modest performance increase for not much outlay.

 

Hello Ausfred
I was hoping my new thread would help you:

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25577

Alas, your motherboard doesn't appear on that list in the link I provided

You can get the manual for that Gigabyte board from here:

http://america.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/FileList/Manual/manual_686lx_e.pdf

Daddad

 

Hi Ausfered,

I think your limiting factor with the GA686LX board is its use of the 440 LX chipset.

The 440LX chipset only supported up to a 66Mhz frontside bus. Starting with the PII 350 all slot 1 processors used at least a 100Mhz or faster frontside bus. To use a processor with the 100 Mhz bus required a board with the 440BX chipset.

So Slot 1 boards that had the 440BX chipset were usually able to support the faster Pentium II and Pentium III processors that used a 100 Mhz or higher bus.

However, Slot 1 boards that used the 440LX chipset, like the GA686LX, were limited to the 66Mhz based processors. The fastest slot 1 of the 66Mhz group is the PII-333. Likewise since the board itself doesn't support faster than 66 Mhz I doubt a convertor will work either - that's probably why the board isn't on the list that Daddad provided a link for.

Replacing a 300 Mhz processor with a 333 will give you marginal, if any, improvement in performance. As PeteC suggested, adding ram will probably give you the best perofmance return for your money.

Cheers,

ICE