[Rick]

I want to upgrade my processor from Duron 700 to Athlon 1.4. I found prices for the chip ranging from $250 all the way down to $120. I always look on computershopper and I have come across some very good deals that way. The highest price was from gateway.com and the lowest is from a site called Thompson Computer Warehouse or something similar. How can they sell a chip so much cheaper than the others and are there different grades that are made? The link to Thompson is:
h*tp://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=1299
What do you think?

Rick

[FthrJACK]

gateway are always expensive, they suck!!! rip off merchants, if you look at the prices of their machines they are also sky high prices

[Rick]

Where do I look to find out if I have 200FSB or 266? I looked up my specs on Mirconpc's site and it gives everything except that.

Rick

[FthrJACK]

im not sure where to look in windows (if there is anywhere) umm.. try a benchmark tool

[intense]

what chipset is on the motherboard that will tell you either 266 or 200.

intense

[Rick]

Here are my motherboard stats...chipset says KT133...does that mean my FSB is 133?

Rick

Spitfire - GVC AR862 Motherboard with Integrated Components

MBD001137-00

Weight (Kg): .51
Processor Type: AMD Duron/Thunderbird
Socket Type: Socket 462
Expansion Slots: 3 PCI, 1 AGP
Memory Type: 1GB
Cache: On Processor
Northbridge Chip Set: VIA KT133 VT8363
Southbridge, Super I/O Chip Set: VIA 82C686A
FWH Chip Set: SST M29F00281
Maximum Memory: 1GB
Primary IDE Type: ATAPI Devices, PIO Modes 4 IDE, Bus mastering, Ultra DMA/33, Ultra DMA/66
Vendor ID: 1106
Device ID: 0571
SubSystem Vendor ID: 14A4
SubSystem Device ID: 2132
Secondary IDE Type: ATAPI Devices, PIO Modes 4 IDE, Bus mastering, Ultra DMA/33, Ultra DMA/66
Floppy Drive Interface: On-board VIA 82C686A; 1 - Floppy Drive; 360KB, 5.25in; 1.2MB, 5.25in; 720KB, 3.5in; 1.44MB, 3.5in; 2.88MB, 3.5in
Communication Ports: 2 - 16C550A UART's 9-pin D-Sub; 1 - Parallel Port; SPP; EPP; ECP; ECP and EPP
Audio SubSystems: Analog Device AD1881 Audio Codec
Vendor ID: 1106h
Device ID: 3058h
SubSystem Vendor ID: 14A4h
SubSystem Device ID: 2132h
Certifications: FCC, UL
BIOS Information: SMBIOS: Ver 2.3; APM: 1.2; ACPI: 1.0; PCI: 2.2; PC98/99