| The Packard Bell Multimedia 820 shipped
with a Cyrix MII-300MHz processor. To
upgrade your CPU to any significant speed on the same motherboard, you
will require an upgrade kit, such as those offered by PowerLeap,
Evergreen Technologies, or Kingston Technology
(linked to our Vendors page). These kits
include a new processor and the required adapter and voltage regulator to
fit into your Socket-7 connector. They can bring your system up to the
performance of a K6-2/400
(Kingston, Evergreen) or even a K6-III/400
(PowerLeap), depending on how much you want to spend. From our CPU
Comparator, you can see that these upgrades would about double your
current speed!
You would also benefit by increasing
your computer's memory
to at least 64MB or adding a new,
faster (and larger) hard drive to adequately meet today's software
requirements. |
