Upgrade to faster cpu

[Kane91]

I recently upgraded my 350mhz computer to xp and it works great, i used to run windows 98 on it which was pretty slow, now i would like to upgrade to a faster cpu, what should i get?
I'm thinking of around 1.5 ghz, what would i need to do or would i be better off starting from scratch with a new machine?

[crossedup]

If you are at 350 Mhz right now you have 1 of a few choices.

You have a super socket 7 mobo, fastest you can get in there is a 550 Mhz amd k6-3 550Mhz CPU, if its supported

You have a slot 1 motherboard with a PII 350, fastest you will probably find supported in that one is 450Mhz or so, after that the slot 1 PIII debuted and they were differant voltages, higher front side busses and what not.

You are probably looking at a Motherboard and CPU upgrade if you really want to go much faster than you are now. Depending on the choice it might require newer RAM, video card and sound.

[pianowizard]

My Gateway E-3200 desktop has a slot1 motherboard that originally had a 300MHz Pentium II. I upgraded it to a 1.1GHz Pentium III via a Super Slocket III for a total of $36.

You should also look into adding RAM. This same computer had only 64MB at first, but I brought it to 512MB. It's now as fast as some Pentium 4 machines that I have used!