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New I replaced a 486/66 with an AMD 5x86/133 with no troubles.
It gave about a 20-30% real-world speedup.

You shouldn't have trouble replacing a Pentium 166 CPU with a Pentium 233MMX. $42 or so at [link|http://www.thechipmerchant.com|The Chip Merchant]. It wouldn't give a dramatic speed boost, but the larger on-chip cache will help and probably be noticable. I don't know anything first hand about faster chips with adapter sockets, etc., for Pentium systems.

HTH. Good luck.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Easy with 486, but . . .
. . Pentium class chips tend to change core voltages and other tricky things, and the clock multiplier isn't built into the chip as with 486's (which were designed to upgrade older boards) I wouldn't recommend changing to a chip the motherboard wasn't built for, and you need to have the board manual to find out what it supports.

Best to buy a motherboard / chip / memory set left from someone's 500-MHz upgrade. Should be plenty of 233 / 333-MHz stuff floating around somewhere.

Do I remember Evergreen going belly-up, but someone took over the processor upgrades? Or was that Kingston dropping theirs (along with everything else except memory products)?
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