poormansmac

p3 chip to celeron mobo attempt...

Wonder if there's anyone out there uing stuff as old as mine.
Just got my olllld Amd k6 233 back from my ex-roommate. A little slow, but with windows 98, rock solid and consistent (the pc, not the roommmate). Put the harddrive into a box with a
celeron 533. Inconsistent, freezes, and sometimes certain apps take a loooong time to respond when clicked on (Simple stuff like opening anything from the start bar like My documents...). Plus startup is a lot slower then the 233....Irritating.
I have a bunch of other chips including a Celeron 366 (which appeared to work okay, but is the slowest and weakest of the bunch in theory), a celery 400 and a Pentium II 450 and a P3 550. I know the Celerons
can fit into my 533 Mobo, but anyone think i'm taking a risk with putting the P3 550 in place of the Celery 533 without upgrading the fan/cooling system? Or should they be close enough that problems will be a minimum ( the celery 533's giving me such a headache, I almost miss my old AMD...)

And I only do basic 'puting (websurf, email, wordprocessing, light digital photos and moderate mp3 stuff) so I don't need a screaming or even an entry level 1 plus gig system (besides, I got all the parts for free and it's kind of fun learning what kind of Frankensteinian result I can cobble up from all that....)

Any useful advice from old pc tinkerers would be highly appreciated...I consider this whole project a learning experience...lol