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Pentium II Question

Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by Big Mark, Mar 2, 2003.

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  1. Mar 2, 2003 at 12:46 AM #1
    Big Mark

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    What's the minimum speed of a PII processor? friend of mine is giving me a PII laptop, but she doesn't know the Mhz. I'm guessing around 300, but I'm jsut guessing... anyone got any for real numbers?
     
  2. Mar 2, 2003 at 6:25 AM #2
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    I believe P2 only went as high as 500Mhz or was it 450? oh well close enough
     
  3. Mar 2, 2003 at 6:31 AM #3
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    Pentium II started at 200mHz
     
  5. Mar 2, 2003 at 8:45 AM #5
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    Mark you'll find that the biggest limiting factor with that laptop will be ram and hard disk space. Usually laptops from that period only accomodate 128k ram at best and usually have onle 32 or 64 meg loaded, the hard drives are usually 1to3 gigs. The pII has internal cache and is faster then most celeron chips, but for most laptop tasks you need to manage the amount of I/O that you use in order to gain speed with current software, and the lack of ram and the small slow hard drive will drive will make the machine seem slower than it really is.
     
  6. Mar 2, 2003 at 9:17 AM #6
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    the hard drive is 4GB and it has one 64MB chip in with an available slot... I'm gonna try to put a 128 chip in, we'll see if it'll work.

    I know this will be never be anythign close to a fast machine, but hey, it's free. I'm just planning on using it to be able to surf from the couch.
     
  7. Mar 2, 2003 at 9:53 AM #7
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    P2 started at 133
     
  8. Mar 2, 2003 at 9:54 AM #8
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    and went as high as 667 (I think it was only 666 but they made it 667 for obvious reasons)
     
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    Pentiums, Pentium Pros and Pentium II's


    pentiums ended at 233

    pentium Pro's started at 166 and ended at 333

    PII's started at 233 (or 266) and ended at 450




    it's something along the lines
     
  10. Mar 2, 2003 at 10:21 AM #10
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    then if that's tru I have a apparently RARE P2 570 that I can sale you for an easy $2000 (due to its rarity of course) :D
     
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