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CPU Upgrade limit for HP Pavilion 7270?

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First post, by King_Corduroy

Posted on 2017-09-07, 23:45

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What's the best CPU I can slap in this Hewlett Packard Pavilion 7270? It's a Pentium 166 as far as I know and I'm not sure what RAM it has but it would be handy to know what the limit for that is. Thanks!

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Reply 1 of 6, by oeuvre

Posted on 2017-09-08, 00:24

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I think they're limited to 166MHz

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Reply 2 of 6, by King_Corduroy

Posted on 2017-09-11, 06:45

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Really?! Man if that's true that sucks, even a mundane Packard Bell from the same time can usually go up to 200mhz.

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Reply 3 of 6, by clueless1

Posted on 2017-09-11, 10:48

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Do you have a P200 you can test with? I can't zoom into the pic you posted, but I can't see any jumpers on the board that might give any clues. Is there a model # on the motherboard that can be searched?

Yeah, my Packard Bell came with a P166 but is upgradeable to POD200MMX, so I'd hope something similar could be done with your 7270.

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Reply 4 of 6, by oeuvre

Posted on 2017-09-11, 12:44

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The part # is 5063-8096

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Reply 5 of 6, by lazibayer

Posted on 2017-09-11, 20:05

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I can only tell it uses 430HX chipset and EDO ram. We might be able to find some clues if you can take a photo of the jumper setting tables.

Reply 6 of 6, by Windows9566

Posted on 2018-11-28, 07:44

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the board in that HP is a OEM Intel Ruby Advanced/RU with a 430HX chipset

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