Socket A upgrade

[kwspony]

I have an old Gateway Select 1000 PC with an AMD Athloon 1GHz socket A chip in it. I want to upgrade the chip to something better. Will any socket A AMD chip work? I think it is a 452 pin chip. The mobo is an MSI board but I can't find it on the MSI site. What do I need to look at in finding a compatible chip?

 

[Tlkki]

Hard time there mate, AFAIK Socket A is no longer manufactured. Time to move on

 

[kwspony]

I know they aren't being made any more but I know I can get one off ebay that is faster then what I have now.

 

[F1N3ST]

Yes, it is socket 462, I suggest you go on a trading forum like forums.anandtech.com and look in the for sale section for an Athlon XP.

 

[Tedster]

the fastest CPU that mobo will take is an athlon 1.4 ghz
I used to own that computer.
That model has long been discontinued.

 

[kwspony]

Why do you say that Tedster? What's the deciding factor with that PC?

 

[DragonMaster]

That computer works with SDRAM. If you want a new mobo, you will need new RAM. You'd better go with a newer machine, or do some CPU and RAM upgrades.

 

[Tedster]

the chipset. It will take only Athlon processors, not Athlon XP processors.

The die on these processors is quite heavy. You can buy them cheaply off of e-bay. I sold my last one when I parted out my system.
Interesting enough, some of them can be overclocked quite fast- the bios on the gateway motherboard, however, won't allow you to.

 

[kwspony]

Bummer, thanks Tedster.

 

[Tedster]

not a prob. Still a 1.4 will be more than ample for average tasks. Don't expect to play newer games at high resolutions. I had an FX5500 card in my old Athlon at one time. It was a pretty decent rig until it got hit with a nasty surge from a lightening strike. The surge protector didn't protect it.