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Re:[H]ardOCP has had this story for a few days now
Evergreen made such an upgrade kit for 486 systems that allowed a low end Pentium CPU to run with the 486's motherboard limitations. They are still around and some info can be foun at their website
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Re:I'm sure retailers will love this.
I would have modded you down, but I didn't think that that would properly convey my reaction to this statement, which is : fuck you.
Good answer. Aside from overclocking, this device (much like similar ones available from Evergreen Technologies and Powerleap) will allow people to continue upgrading a PC that had previously maxxed-out its CPU upgrade options, thus reducing waste and generally being a good thing. And you want to label these people as liars and thieves. You just gained another foe. -
Re:Fun with Upgrades
Upgrades are a fun loophole. You could upgrade the same PC forever thanks to the efforts of www.powerleap.com and www.evertech.com.
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Neat, but it seems a bit pricey...
According to the SwiftTech Web Site the Kit reviewed in the article costs around $200 - $250 depending on the specific model you buy...
Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to get the Evergreen Thermagic kit? It's only $99 bucks and seems a lot easier to install. Of course, the Evergreen kit doesn't have green cooling liquid (actually, the liquid isn't visible).
I guess if the look of the cooling kit is more important to ya, the SwifTech one might be worth paying double for. I'd personally prefer something quiet (the whole point of buying these kits) that doesn't consume a lot of power and is easy to install. Seems like the Evergreen kit is the better deal.
Anyone out there own either of these kits? Any recommendations, preferences, horror stories?
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Re:Needed: One Thermal Protection Adapter Board.
The socket for the CPU, whether on the adapter board or on the mainboard, will still have tabs for mounting a heatsink. The adapter could even, itself, be attached to the mainboard via the mainboard socket tabs.
Look at the design of PGA-to-slot adapters made to allow use of Socket 370 CPUs in mainboards designed for Slot 1 CPUs. You mounted the CPU on the board, the heatsink on the CPU, and the board in the slot. Worked fine. Look at the products to adapt CPUs from one family to another. These support voltage regulation and the use of a heatsink. (They are a stupid waste of money in almost all consumer PCs, but they point out the mechanical viability of such a solution.)
In fact, this would be a particularly easy one as there would need to be no significant offset between the two sockets. You only need to connect to four pins (3.3v, gnd, 2-pin thermal diode). The "output" could be a jumper to the two-pin power switch connector the motherboard. Problem solved. -
Re:Processor Cards for the PC
I can't imagine that somebody wouldn't want to try this for PC processor upgrades.
Someone already has.
Evergreen Technologies has the Accelera PCI which takes a Celeron CPU and a PC100 SODIMM on a PCI card. However, this doesn't yield as much gain as the apple upgrades, since PCI wasn't built with the bandwidth necessary to support an extra CPU.
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Re:IBM convertable laptop
rocking with a Kingston 486 upgrade and a Kingston memory MCA board, fully populated with 16mb of ram
Hardware upgrades really used to rock. Systems didn't dead-end back in the day anywhere near as frequently as they do now. Thank std_deity.h for companies like Powerleap and Evergreen still keeping the innovative hardware upgrade alive. I've already turned my Pentium75 into a K6-2 300. Soon I'll be upgrading my company's old NT server from a PPro 200 to a Celeron 600 without having to take it down for a week.Does anyone else know any other companies with a flare for such upgrades?
