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by littlewashu

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I picked up this computer at a garage sale for free, lucky me, but unfortunately it did not come with any information about the motherboard or the processor chip inside. By looking through the information stored by the device manager, I have found that my processor chip is an AMD Athlon 1800+ 1.53Ghz Model 8 Family 6 x86. I would like to upgrade my chip to something around the 2 to 3Ghz range, but I do not know anything about the chip I currently have. Any information on the current chips settings would be great so I can buy something compatible.

Additional-- I have never replaced a CPU chip in my life but I have read some on how it's done, so any advice in doing that is also greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

PS: Did some more snooping through my Device Manager and came across this information for my Motherboard: ACPI\PNP0C02\1, hope it helps anyone who answers this question. :)

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by oh smeg

Instead of giving us the CPU Speed the Make & Model of the M'Board would be better. As we need to know what Socket Type that is installed on the M'Board and then direct you to a compatible CPU if they where ever made.

Just for your information the AMD CPU specifications are available here and while I have shown them all as there are several different Processor Types that are possible they have different Socket Types so may not be interchangeable.

http://tinyurl.com/ys4by

If you can not see any Markings on the M'Board press the Pause Key on the Keyboard when the POST is being performed and copy down the BIOS string on the bottom of the screen and the BIOS makers name which should be Award, Phoenix or AMD and repost them and then it will be possible to help you. You can post the M'Board Makers Name & Model if you can see it as well as that would be easier to look up.

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by littlewashu

I haven't a clue what type of motherboard inside of my computer because all information was not with it including the specs of the motherboard that's found inside computer. Any idea how I may find that information given the lack of any documentation?

by oh smeg

And look for a Makers Name & Model Number like Gigabyte GA6BSDU which is a Gigabyte Dual Processor P2 or 3 M'Board with Ultra SCSI.

The M'Board should have something on it that covers the Maker and Model Number or if that isn't there, there will be a BIOS String on the Bottom of the POST Screen that you can copy down and post here that will identify the M'Board. You also need to add the Maker of the BIOS as well and that will be either Award, Phoenix, AMD [i]Advanced Micro Devices.[/i]

Though if you get a Splash Screen with a Makers Name you will need to turn that off in BIOS.

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by littlewashu

Thank you for the help.

BIOS is Award Modular BIOS V6.0
M'Board is a MicroStar MS-6378 V3 (W6378VMS V3.5 was written with the BIOS name on boot up)

by oh smeg

That uses a AMD CPU up to [i]Supports Athlon (Thunderbird, Socket A) to 1.4GHz.[/i]

So you can only install a CPU up to 1.4 GHZ Speed and the full text is listed here for this M'Board

http://tinyurl.com/2dk8el

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by littlewashu

It looks like if I want to up the CPU on my computer, I am going to need a new mother board. Okies, thank you for the help.

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