John:

I have the exact same HP XU as Gerry is on my desk at the office...

Overdrive chips do not work, due to the dual-pentium config. This is
documented on HP's web site - I looked a while back. It is probably
possible to install faster CPU's, as long as they match the 60MHZ
external bus speed. Maybe a few 180MHZ pentiums? At the time I upgraded
mine, the 133MHZ was just getting affordable. I plugged them in, the
BIOS automatically recognized them, and the system ran faster. Simple.

David also mentioned that there is only a single hard drive. We really
should have at least RAID1 (mirrored) drives. And how about a tape
drive? Dave, do we have one?

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://www.relitech.com/tomc/tomvw.htm

Blue Eyes wrote:
>
> Dave said, "Gerry has Dual P90 CPUs - when it is doing LISTSERV the utilization
> is [on both CPUs] 75% or so.  When doing a web search [both CPUs] it is pegged
> to 100% and it can usually never get the job done - thus times out."
>
> For peanuts on Ebay, we could pick up a pair of what ever the fastest overdrive
> chip that HP motherboard will accept.  HP's site will tell what it can accept,
> but I think 166 5-volt overdrives fit most everything back to the stone age.
> 166/90 = 184% if Gerry's CPU speed is a significant bottleneck.
>