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Hello, do you have an atx power supply? The best upgrade would probably be a cpu/mb combo which may or may not support your ram. Better yet for around 347 krex.com has a 1400mghz duron with 256 meg ram/40gig hd,... needs operating system, could useyour current. you can bviously get close to that for less keeping whatever parts you currently have which are good. But you will need the atx power and 300+watts to drive'm. I'ld have to think your cuurent upgrade path may be to limitted and high priced for what you may get out of it. Might be a good time to sell and upgrade.
367 isn't bad for a highschool student or college student and it gets you a good down payment on a new machine. Just my thoughts. Complete 1.6 g celeron systems with operating system xp home are around 460.

Without knowing the specific model number of your motherboard, this is just an 'educated' guess.

The 'average' PII socket 370 MB supports PII CPUs up to 450MHz, and Celeron CPUs up to 550 MHz.

You are limited to the used CPU market, so you areat risk for many problems from installing a different CPU.

If you were able to double the CPU speed, you would see at BEST, a 25% increase in performance.

You can get Socket A motherboard CPU combos for around $100. Add another $50 for new RAM, possibly $30 for a 300 Watt power supply, and your system will run much faster than it does now.

Chas

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