K6Now! brings slow Pentium PCs up to AMD K6-2 or K6-3

Rapid advances in computing technology are causing shorter life cycles for users systems. Keeping up with these current technologies is often a costly and complex venture. HighPerTEC addresses this problem with the K6Now! products which allows users to increase performance of their existing system without having to replace the motherboard and other components. The K6Now! upgrades are chip-for-chip replacements that utilizes the AMD-K6-2 or K6-3 processors with 3DNow! technology and PowerLeaps patented Upgrade sockets. The K6Now! processor upgrades are an inexpensive and easy way to increase a system s processing performance up to 600%. It installs into any socket 5 or socket 7-pin layout with a simple flip of a lever and will equip your system with the necessary tools for handling today s processor intensive applications.

As quickly as today's technology changes, a product is often outdated shortly after it is purchased. Not only can the hardware become antiquated but updated software generates more data-intensive files that demand greater processor speed. There is also an increasing demand of added system functionality such as multi-tasking, graphics, and faster Internet access that puts additional stress on the processor. Furthermore, there is an increased use of processor-demanding operating systems and applications such as Microsoft Windowsr 95, 98, NT, OS/2 Warp, Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator requiring additional speed.

K6Now! CPU-Upgrades for Pentium 75 to 233 PCs and server with up to 400MHz AMD K6-2 CPUs

K6Now! Upgrades for Pentium PCs + Server The HighPerTEC K6Now! upgrades are available to upgrade Pentium 75, 90, 100, 120, 133, 166 and higher speed systems up to AMD K6-2 400 or AMD K6-3 450 MHz with MMX and 3D-Now! support for PCs and servers, even if the manufacturer doesn't offer an upgrade path for the CPU. K6Now! gives up to 600% more power to all CPU intensive applications. K6Now! CPU-Upgrades, powerd by AMDr K6T-2 + 3 CPUs + 3DNow!T MMXT Support 64 KB Level 1 Cache 64 bit Architectur Superscalar Design Math Coprocessor down to 2.1 V Core support Temperatur control Integrated Clock Multiplier Active Cooler with ball-bearing fan Socket 5 and 7 compatible 100% Software compatible easy and fast Installation detailed installation manual available with 300, 333, 366, 400 + 450 MHz

Most of the older Pentium PCs or Servers with outdated 75, 90, 100, 120, 133, 166 or 200 MHz Pentium Processors are upgradeable with our easy to install HighPerTEC K6Now! CPU-Upgrade modules. With K6Now! you could upgrade your system up to AMD K6-2 400 or K6-3 450 MHz performance within a few minutes. Upgrading an older Pentium system with CPU-Upgrade modules is the only solution, if new standard mainboards are not available for your specific system (COMPAQ, HP, IBM a.s.o.). There are more than 200 Million slower Pentium PCs installed worldwide, so that there is a very interesting market for CPU-Upgrade technologies.

Test with LandMark Speed Test, PCs upgraded with K6Now!-333

• System: COMPAQ ProLinea 590
  CPU-Test before: 520 MHz with P90 -after: 3375 MHz with K6Now!-333
  
• System: COMPAQ DeskPro 5/75
  CPU-Test before: 433 MHz mit P75 -after: 2988 MHz with K6Now!-333
  
• System: IBM PC 350 / 750 series
  CPU-Test before: 574 MHz mit P100 -after: 2890 MHz with K6Now!-333
  

K6Now! CPU-Upgrades with AMD K6-2 or K6-3 CPUs with 3DNow!
3DNow! technology is the first innovation that significantly enhances three-dimensional (3D) graphics and multimedia performance for today's mainstream Microsoftr Windows compatible personal computers. Combining 3DNow! technology with industry standard MMX instructions, the K6Now! enhancements can complement 3D graphic cards to deliver lifelike images and big-screen stereo sound. Most applications offers even more speed with optimized 3D Graphics device drivers from the software manufacturers. Some of the device drivers for 3D applications and games such as Quake are available as free downloads from the AMD Homepage .

K6Now! Power using Business applications
Using standard business applications, the AMD K6-2 and K6-3 processors outperforms most Intel Pentium II CPUs and offers much better price/performance relations to the power user. With the HighPerTEC K6Now! CPU-Upgrades there is an easy upgrade solution with the new AMD processors for much more power in most systems without the hazzle of new hard- and software configurations.

K6Now! How it works
The function of all K6Now! processor upgrades are easy to explain. The new AMD K6-2 and K6-3 processors are using less voltage than the older Intel CPUs. A small switching power supply on the upgrade socket regulates the necessary core power for the new CPU, using a power connection direct from the PCs power supply. In opposite to linear power supplies, there is almost no heat dissapation. K6Now! is designed with an automatic clock multiplier supporting up to 95MHz external bus speed. Some motherboards allow users to take advantage of the faster bus speed with a single jumper change. The internal clock multiplier of the CPU reads the switch settings from the upgrade module to calculate the maximum speed within the CPU based on the mainboards bus speed. Most mainboards offers 60 or 66 MHz as the base frequency. This technology is standard with all PC systems, using upgrades or not, and has nothing to do with over-clocking or other dangerous tricks to get more speed out of a CPU. With the K6Now! CPU-Upgrades, the CPUs and boards are always used within the manufacturers specifications.

Ex.: K6Now!-333 MHz

K6Now! Compatibility List:
K6Now! is compatible with a very broad base of systems. If a particular manufacturer or model is not shown on one of our compatibility lists, that does not mean that the make or model is incompatible. It simply means that we have not received a verified report from either a customer or our in-house testing facility that confirms that the system is compatible. If a system falls into the class of systems that a particular K6Now! was designed for, our policy is to consider that system compatible unless proven otherwise. These compatibility lists are composed of systems that we or our customers have tested with the K6Now! and have found to be compatible. These lists are constantly changing, are not considered complete and are provided as such for your convenience.

The computer's BIOS must support AMD processors. As a rule of thumb, if the K6 or K5 is supported, the K6Now! typically works. Some BIOS incompatibilities can be resolved by a BIOS upgrade from the systems manufacturer or ot Unicore or MicroFirmware. However, Unicore and MicroFirmware supports a limited number of systems, mostly those with Award BIOS or Phoenix BIOS originally.

MMXNow!-233 - Most systems, that won't work with the K6Now! products will work with MMXNow!, a similar processor upgrade using the Intel 233 MHz MMX CPU instead of the AMD processors.

ACER Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
Acros 75, Altos P75 (P75, Intel 430FX Chip-Set, Socket 5)
Acer Open AX53 (all systems, except AT53)
Acer Open AP5T (Intel 430TX, Award)
Aspire Model 1240, 1280, 1330D, 1822, V12LC
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
Acros 100 (P100, no display, but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Acer Open AT53 (Cyrix 166, Socket 7, System fails to display video)

AST Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
Advantage Adventure 8075
Advantage Adventure 8090
Advantage Adventure 8100p (requires BIOS update from MicroFirmware)
BRAVO LC 5100 (P100, AST Bios 1.02, SIS5511 Chip-Set, Socket 5)
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
Advantage 7303, 8206E, 9303, 9306, 9313, 9316 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Bravo LC5166 (P166, but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Premium P/90 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Premmia GX P/90 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

ASUS Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
ASUS (almost all, using the latest Award BIOS from ASUS)
P55SP4V Revision 1.7
P55T2P4 Revision 2.1
P55TVP4 Revision 1.2
SP97-V
TX97-E
TX97-X
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
P54SP4 (System fails to boot. No video)
TX97-X (Low performance increase)

A-Trend Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
A-trend (almost all, using the latest Award BIOS from A-Trend)
ATC-1020 Revision A
ATC-1040
ATC-5000 Revision 2.05
ATC-5020 Revision 1.02
ATC-5040 Revision 1.1
ATC-5050 Revision 1.02

AT&T / NCR Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
Globalyst 620
Globalyst 630 (nicht TPC)
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
Globalyst series except above (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

COMPAQ Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
DeskPro XL575, XL590, XL5100, XL5120, XL5133, XL5150, XL5166
DeskPro 4000 Series: 5120, 5133, 5166, 5200
DeskPro 2000 Series 5166X/2100 (CPQ 586M BIOS 97.09.03)
ProLinea 5100, 5120, 5133 series (almost all using the latest BIOS from COMPAQ)
ProLinea 575, 590, 590/T4 series (using the latest BIOS from COMPAQ)
Presario 4546, 4550, 4704, 4910, 5133, 5526, 7170, 7660, 9542
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
Presario series (except above, but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades, except of 5528)
DeskPro 2000 series (all except 5166X/2100, some works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
DeskPro 5120

DELL Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
Dimension XPS works with special BIOS Versions from UNICORE or MicroFirmware (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades without BIOS-Update)
Dimension XPS works with special BIOS Versions from UNICORE or MicroFirmware (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades without BIOS-Update)
Optiplex series works with special BIOS Versions from UNICORE or MicroFirmware (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades without BIOS-Update)
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
Dimension series see hints above
Optiplex series see hints above

DEC / DIGITAL Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
Celebris GL
Celebris GL 5100 (Phoenix 4.04/DEC GL 1.01 BIOS)
Celebris 590
Celebris FX2 (Digital 1.13 BIOS) If system indicates IOS error at boot, download Update from Microsoft)
PC5100 (Digital 1.13 BIOS) If system indicates IOS error at boot, download Update from Microsoft)  
Flora DM1/DM2, Prius, DL5100, 590, GL51332
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
Starion 919 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

GATEWAY Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
All systems with BIOS Upgrade from Unicore. All systems are using Intel motherboards, that are normally limited to Intel processors (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
P5 series (all, but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades or using a special BIOS Upgrades with K6Now!)

HEWLETT PACKARD Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
Wichtig: all u.a. Modelle nur mit neuem BIOS Upgrade von Hewlett Packard
VE 5/75 series 1
VE 5/100 series 3
VL 5/75
VL 5/75 series 3
VL 5/100 series 4
VL 5/166 series 4
VL 5/200 (HP 07.08 BIOS)
VL 3 5/90
XM 590
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not upgradeable using K6Now!:
Pavilion series (all. but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
PC V90 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
VL 4/100 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Vectra 5/133 series 5 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Vectra 5/166 series 5 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
XM 5166 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

IBM Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
PC 300 GL 6288-38U, 6587-LBT (disregard 127 Boot Sequence Error, hit ENTER key and the systems will work fine)
PC 300 PL 6562-46U (disregard 127 Boot Sequence Error, hit ENTER key and the systems will work fine)
PC 330 6577-J2L
PC 340 series (all)
PC 700 series (730, 750, all systems with latest PC BIOS from IBM)
APTIVA series with latest APTIVA BIOS from IBM. If a 127 error message comes up at boot, hit the ENTER key to override. The systems will work fine.
APTIVA series 133. 555. 740. 745. 755. 765. 766. 770. 775. 784. 785. 795. A14
APTIVA series B60. B65. B75. B80. B85. B95
APTIVA series C23. C73. C9S
APTIVA series E16. E17. E26. E27. E47. E1A. E2A. E4A
APTIVA series H54. H55. H56. H5E. H64. H65. H6D. H6E. H75. H7E. H7G
APTIVA series J31. J32. J33. J35. J3C. J3Y. J3E. J3K. J3V. J3K. J3L. J3W. J3X. J3Y. J3Z
APTIVA series M53. M70. M71. S78. S7H. S80. S90
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not upgradeable with K6Now!:
APTIVA series J33. J35, C9E (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Aptiva series 540. 550 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
PC330 series (all except above, but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
PC350 series (all, but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

MICRON Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
Millenia series (allmost all with newest Phoenix BIOS from Micron)
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not upgradeable with K6Now!:
P75 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Powerstation P90 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Home MPC P100 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

NEC Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
PowerMate V75
PowerMate V133
PowerMate VP75
Ready 9624
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not upgradeable with K6Now!:
Ready series (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
7510 P75 (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

PACKARD BELL Pentium Systems, upgradeable with K6Now!
all systems needs the Phoenix BIOS 4.04 or higher
PB600
PB680
PB810
Spectra 300 CDQ
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not upgradeable with K6Now!:
PB640 (CPOR-Bios) (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
PB680 (DNOR-Bios) (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)
Hillary (BYOR-Bios) (but works with MMXNow!-233 CPU-Upgrades)

Motherboards Pentium, upgradeable with K6Now!
ABIT (AR5, Global Crusader, PR5, almost all systems. If system fails to boot, disable the CPU Speed Error Hold setting in the CMOS under CPU Soft Menu
ASUS (almost all, using the newest BIOS from ASUS)
BIOSTAR (almost all, using the newest BIOS from BIOSTAR or Unicore)
CHAINTECH (almost all using the newest BIOS from ChainTech)
DATA EXPERT (almost all using the newest BIOS from Data Expert)
DFI (almost all using the newest BIOS from DFI)
ELITEGROUP / ECS (all using the newest BIOS from Elitegroup)
FIC First International Computer (all using the newest BIOS from FIC)
GIGABYTE (all using the newest BIOS from Gigabyte)
IWILL (all using the newest BIOS from Iwill)
MICROSTAR (all using the newest BIOS from MicroStar)
OCEAN (all using the latest BIOS from Ocean)
SHUTTLE (all using the newest BIOS from Shuttle)
SOYO (all using the newest BIOS from Soyo)
TEKRAM (all using the latest BIOS from Tekram)
TMC (all using the newest BIOS from Taiwan Mycomp)
TYAN (all using the newest BIOS from Tyan)
VTECH (all using the newest BIOS from VTECH)
ZIDA (all using the newest BIOS from Zida)
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not upgradeable with K6Now!:
INTEL (with special BIOS-Upgrades only, because the Intel BIOS refuses any other CPU manufacturer (CPU-ID). BIOS-Modifications are available from HANTZ + PARTNER or specialized BIOS manufacturers: MicroFirmware and Unicore. All Intel Boards are working without BIOS-Modufications using the MMXNow!-233 Processor Upgrades). Click here for more Intel BIOS upgrade informations.

Please ask us for all other brands and models !
Please note, that this list is not complete and that there are many other systems that are upgradeable with K6Now!. We offer a free test using all available upgrade options within our labs. This service is absolutely free.

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