The Packard Bell Legend Supreme 1600
normally shipped with a pre-MMX
Pentium-133MHz processor. As you are discovering and can readily see on
our main CPU Scorecard list, it
languishes pretty far down on today's processor food chain.
To upgrade your CPU on the same motherboard, you will require an
upgrade kit, such as those offered by PowerLeap, Evergreen
Technologies, or Kingston Technology (linked to
our Vendors page). These kits include a new
processor and the required adapters and voltage regulators to fit onto an
older Socket-5 or Socket-7 motherboard. They can bring your system up to
the performance of a K6-2/366
(Kingston), K6-2/400 (Evergreen) or even a K6-III/400
(PowerLeap), depending on how much you want to spend. From our CPU
Comparator, you can see that these upgrades would provide a speed
increase to more than three, four, or five times your
current pace!
It is also likely you will need to increase your computer's memory and
hard drive storage to adequately meet today's software requirements.
