On 26 Dec 2001 at 1:24, Harold Lawson wrote:

> I have an old emachine etower 366id. I would like to upgrade the cpu.
> Emachine sell an Intel Celeron 533mz cpu  PPGA Model ic for an upgrade
> at a very high price. I was wondering if maybe I could install a
> faster Celeron cpu
I don't know anything about Via chips, but this information should apply to any manufacturer:
The speed of the CPUs to which you can upgrade is limited both by the motherboard hardware
and by your BIOS.  If you have the booklet which came with either the machine or the
motherboard, it should tell you pretty clearly what CPUs you can use, including the maximum
speeds (bus and internal clock).

  or maybe a Via C3 750 mz and it would work. Also
> what does PPGA mean as it pertains to a cpu.
For practical purposes, it refers to the way the CPU is packaged and designed to fit into the
socket on the motherboard. Bang "ppga definition" into a search engine for more information.
The same booklet should tell you what CPU packages it accepts, also.  Some boards accept
more than one kind, and I thin that Intel often packages the same CPU in more than one
package.

Good luck.
David Jonathan Justman

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