Processor transplant?

[486sxProcessor]

I have a Packard Bell computer with the 486sx chip in it  :(  Is there a way to transfer a Pentium processor over to it and change it out? The 486sx chip isnt saudered on it can come off. I might be bringing home a  old NEC computer with a pentium processor. I have done so much work to the packard bell  but it cant take 98 i need a higher processor! So is it possible to do a processor transplant?  the pentium is only one generation ahead of the 486sx. is there any hope of doing it? if not how do  i overclock my computer?

[Chandler]

The Pentium uses Socket 5 (or Socket 7) which is incompatible with 486 sockets (Socket 3 and 4 I think).

[query]

There is one Pentium OverDrive for 486, but it's not a standard Pentium CPU - a standard one will not work on a Socket-3 or -4 board.

[486sxProcessor]

How do you over clock?

[Chandler]

I don't know, but there's no benefit in overclocking a 486SX.  The Pentium architecture is a generation ahead of the 486 and so a 100MHz Pentium outperforms a 100MHz 486, even if you overclock the processor, its going to be nowhere near minimum speeds.  I believe that the SX also lacks a maths co-processor and so this makes it slower still.

You may be able to run Windows 95 on that machine; at school I remember we "resurrected" an old 486SX with 4MB RAM that sat in the corner of the computer room.  It wasn't quick, but it worked.

[query]

By raising the bus speed or multiplier on the CPU to push it beyond its rated capacity.

The concept of multipliers arrived with the second-generation Pentium CPUs - it's just about impossible to overclock a 486 or early Pentium CPU.

[Chandler]

If you really want to install Windows 98 on that machine, you can use the /nm switch to disable processor checking (Win98 setup checks for a CPU with maths co-processor by default).

So type SETUP /nm in DOS to install.

[486sxProcessor]

 Thanks ! I installed windows 98 :D its running smoothly and isnt too slow  thanks for telling me that.