Hello everybody and welcome back to another video now in today's video
We're gonna be doing some upgrades actually to the five dollar Windows 98 PC
This is a video that I'm very excited about
I've kind of mentioned this here and there in a couple of previous videos on this computer
But as you can probably tell from the title, we're going to be attempting to upgrade the CPU in this thing from its current
433 megahertz Intel Celeron processor and after I uploaded my last video on this computer
Which was the Windows Vista installation
I actually got an email from a very kind viewer by the name of Austen and he actually had a couple of Pentium 3
CPUs lying around and offered to send them to me
Which I absolutely accepted in the package just arrived a couple of days ago and inside are two Pentium 3 CPUs
And I'm very excited about actually attempting to put one of them in this computer
now as I said, there are two CPUs in here, one of them is an SL4M8 Pentium 3, which runs at
733 megahertz with a 133 megahertz bus speed and the other one is an SL5QV
Which is a 1 gigahertz Pentium 3 with a 100 megahertz bus speed now
I know from some of the research that I did that I believe this computer can run the
733 megahertz Pentium 3 no problem because I actually saw an
image of a guy trying to sell a computer on eBay which I believe was the same computer and he actually had an image of-
and you guys probably know from some of the videos that I've done on this computer as its booting up you can press tab to
display system info
well
he had a screenshot of that screen and the motherboard model number was the exact same as the one that
Displays on this computer and he had a Pentium 3
733 megahertz CPU in that machine and it booted up totally fine. So I believe that will be able to run the
733 megahertz in this machine now Austen mentioned that this machine, you know, if we try to put In the 1 gigahertz
It might work, but it might run at a lower clock speed and it might even do the same thing with a 733 megahertz
But we're going just to try out the 1 gigahertz to see if we are successful in it
now as I've kind of mentioned this computer
It is a smaller form factor machine and because of that is kind of challenging to work on
Now in this case the CPU is actually directly under the power supply
So we have to remove the power supply and a lot of these IDE cables here to kind of get access to the CPU
So I've got my trusty
iFixit toolkit here
We're going to open it up and actually get a screwdriver with just a standard Phillips
Screw head at the moment because that is all that we need
Okay, so we're gonna start by removing this screw right here
Which basically secures the power supply into the case the power supply is definitely mounted in a very interesting way, you know
It's not like your standard mounting procedure where it's kind of on the bottom and you know
Just kind of right next to the motherboard like it is today
It's actually kind of like suspended above the motherboard
Then what we're going to do is actually remove these screws on the back here as obviously, you know, it's got that
You know set of screws to secure it to the back of the case this power supply
You guys can probably tell is also a bit of a smaller form factor power supply
I don't recall the exact wattage offhand, but
We can obviously verify that once we actually get it removed here. So I'm going to kind of put some
Support on the back of this thing
So it doesn't completely fall out and we're going to remove the the last screw here
And with this the power supply should come right out which you can see it's doing that. Alright now
So I'm going to just take the power supply out here
So you can see there it is. We're going to set it kind of right here. I'm going to flip the case back over
alright
So we've got the power supply
Unmounted from the from the case here and this is actually a 90 watt you can see from the back here
So definitely a smaller and form factor and also smaller in
Actually, like how much that it puts out
It only puts out 90 watts. So what we have to do now is actually well first
We're going to set this off to the side
And just kind of leave it there because we have to actually remove some of these ribbon cables here
Okay, so I don't think I need to remove the ribbon cables at the moment because the cables from the power supply
Actually wrap around them and there we go. I've just got it unplugged from the motherboard
so there is our cable from the power supply and then we also need to obviously unplug the
Cables the power cables from well after you might not even need to mess with that
Let's see if we can just set the power supply down here on the table
And yeah that actually gets, you know everything out of the way so we still have the power supply plugged into
the hard drive and the CD drive
You know, but we're not going to bother unplugging those cables because we don't need to because it's all out of the way
So right here
Underneath these and man has a lot of dust on that thing underneath these IDE cables
You can see that the power the CPU is right here
This is the heatsink for so we're probably going to have to remove all of these
Okay. So we've got one of the IDE cables here. Let's go ahead and remove the other one right here
And get that out and then we've got our last one here
Alright so there we go. We've got all of our ribbon cables removed
So we're gonna go ahead and just kind of set those see if we can set these off to the side
Alright, so we've got all of the ribbon cables unplugged from the motherboard
These are the three slots down here that they were plugged into and we have them kind of tucked away
You know same way that the power supply is just kind of out of the way
The one from the floppy drive is actually still kind of in the case
But it's just kind of off this way because it was easier, you know
Instead of trying to wrap it outside the case
now one of these sticks of RAM you can see is awfully close to we're gonna have to kind of get in to
Remove the heatsink. So I'm actually just going to just to be safe. We're gonna pop out that stick of RAM
So just kind of get it out of the way so we can have some more room in here to work with and for those
Who are interested this is a socket 370 motherboard and it uses the Intel
i810 chipset. So that is basically what we're working with here
And yeah
since we kind of have to use
this screwdriver to kind of there's basically like a little tab that you need to push down on to kind of unlatch the
bracket here
I'm actually gonna go ahead and remove the other stick of RAM because the head of the screwdriver is coming very close to it and
I do not want it to kind of hit to the stick of RAM as we are removing this
So what we need to do is kind of go in here at an angle
We need to kind of push down pressure on it and unlatch it like that. There we go. So we have the
the this piece right here unlatched
So we're going to just go ahead and remove the CPU cooler like that and you can see right here
It says PGA 370. So this is a like I said a socket 370 motherboard and to remove this CPU
we just have to lift up on this little latch here and
Pull up and just like that the CPU should come right out. So there it is
And the information for the CPU is actually contained on the bottom
So I'll go ahead and bring it up here and you can see that it is an Intel Celeron
That's the model number right there SL38A and the copyright date is 1998 down there at the very bottom
So that is the info for this CPU what we've got now or I'm going to go ahead and open up a little
static bag here of the two Pentium threes
So right here, we have the Intel Pentium 3 SL5QV, which is the one gigahertz processor
And we're going to actually match up the little golden triangle right there, which actually matches up to this corner of the socket
So we're going to go ahead and place the CPU very very carefully right in the slot. There we go
it is locked in so we're now going to pull down the retention arm and
Lock it in place. So there we go. CPU is now locked in place now Austin actually also included a
Tube of arctic solar v thermal compound here, which was very nice. So we actually can use that
Alright just like that. We have the
heatsink secured back on the CPU with a fresh
Bit of thermal paste. So now all there is to do is well first we got to put the the RAM back in actually
so let me go ahead and do that here so we can actually
Get the machine to post. All right. So now all there is to do is actually reconnect all of our
peripherals now I'm only going to really connect the hard drive because
If this doesn't post if it doesn't actually work, I'm just gonna have to like take you know, unplug everything again
So it really doesn't make sense to plug everything back in so we know for sure that it actually works
So I'm going to go ahead and just plug the hard drive and and same thing with the power supply
I'm going to just I mean, well, you have to obviously plug this cable back in to the motherboard
but I'm not really going to worry about like mounting the power supply back into place at the moment because if we have to
You know get back into this. I mean, it's just gonna cause more of a hassle. All right, so moment of truth
Let's see if this thing is successful on the very first try
I'll be very surprised if it is because you guys know if you watch these videos, there's always a
I'm not gonna really jinx myself. Let's just go ahead and turn this back on
So I've got the monitor powered on I'm gonna go ahead and press the power button
Let me actually zoom down here so you can see I've got the power button right here
Got it powering on let's go ahead and paint over to the monitor
And let's see if it posts
It is not looking like it's gonna post cuz usually the green light is on right now
So, alright guys, well we didn't really get the news we were hoping for I even tried rearranging the sticks of RAM
They are removed from the system now, but even after kind of doing that because this same exact thing happened
off camera in the upgrading Ram video on this computer
where it actually wouldn't post so I kind of reconfigured it to the way that I know it worked in that video and it still
Did not post so that leads me to believe that
This CPU is is not really gonna work with this system
which is unfortunate not the result that we were hoping for but we do still have the
733 megahertz Pentium 3 to try out that is this one again right here. So that's what we're going to do
we're going to actually try it out and see if by using that CPU we can actually
Get the system to post. Alright, so a bit of a jump cut here, but I have inserted the
733 megahertz Pentium 3 in the computer. We've got the RAM
Put back in hooked up to the monitor. Now, let's see and obviously plugged into a, you know to the power outlet
so let's actually turn this thing back on and see if my theory was right and let's see if it works with the
733 megahertz Pentium 3 its powering on right now
and there we go. We got a green light check that out. So we're gonna press tab here and
So it's found a Pentium 3 processor with 600E MHz
Oh, I don't have the hard drive plugged in so I'm gonna have to plug in the hard drive
Alright, so we've got the hard drive plugged in. Let's go ahead and turn the system back on
That was the one thing that I somehow forgot to plug in now
this was the screen right here that the guy in that eBay listing that I talked about earlier had an image of and
This line right here was exactly the same and when I looked up this line I got like this is the motherboard model number
Right here
So that is kind of what made me theorize because he had a Pentium 3
733 megahertz CPU. So that's what kind of made me feel that. Oh, this might actually work. Ok
So we're here in the BIOS setup utility
And I kind of am wondering I think the reason why it is saying that the processor speed is 600E MHz
is it could be that this BIOS version does not know how to display a processor speed higher than 600 megahertz
So it could actually be running a higher than 600 megahertz and it might be running at that 733 megahertz
But this BIOS version might just not be able to display it
So what we're gonna do is actually booting the windows. I do have Windows Vista still on this computer
we're going to get out of the BIOS here and
Actually boot into Windows Vista and see what Windows says that the CPU speed is
but either way if it's at 600 megahertz if it's at 733 megahertz, it's still
Higher than the original 433 which is definitely pretty awesome
And I think it's just going to be great because we've so far we've maxed out the RAM in this computer to the maximum
512 and if this computer like this is probably since it can't take the 1 gigahertz processor
this might be the fastest CPU that this motherboard can support so if that's the case and we've basically
Maxed out both the RAM and the CPU in this thing
So it is still calling itself an x86 family 6 model 8 stepping 6 this might be different than what it was saying before
If it is, I'll kind of go ahead and put that up on the screen right now
Because I don't actually remember the exact model number
or the exact kind of
String of text that it had here when I was running the Intel Celeron we did get a driver software installation pop-up
it said that it installed the
Device driver for the Intel processor just as Intel processor, but it is telling us to restart our systems who apply these changes
So we will say yes, we'll go ahead and restart now. All right
So here we are booted back into Windows. What we're going to actually do is press Windows key
Pause break to open up the system
Dialog and you can see that right here
It is running at five hundred and ninety eight and megahertz, which is probably six hundred megahertz. That's what the BIOS said
So yeah, it turns out that it is not able to run at the full
733 megahertz but
This is still super awesome. Because like I said, we now have the CPU and the RAM in this computer maxed out
But yeah guys there you have it that is yet another upgrade
Successfully performed on the famous $5 Windows 98 PC. I hope you guys enjoyed this video
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I want to give a huge thank you to Austen for literally making this video possible by sending me these two CPUs and
Austen be sure to let me know if you want your one gigahertz CPU back
I'm probably going to shoot you an email about this anyway, but
Yeah, be sure to let me know I can definitely mail this back to you if you want me to keep it
That is awesome. And thank you so much for that
And if you guys have any questions or comments for me
Be sure to leave those down below if you want to see any more or if you have any
Hardware upgrades, you know suggestions for this computer. Like I said, I've been thinking about
Getting a set of speakers for this
but if you guys have any
You know more upgrades that you might like to see me perform on this but as always guys
I just want to thank you all so much for watching and I will see you in the next video