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HyperLamer
Posts: 2273/8210 |
Close to it. 
BMF: Heh, no thanks. I already blew up what I suspect was a capacitor or two on my laptop.  |
alte Hexe
Posts: 1827/5458 |
You live in Sudbury, ja?
If I upgrade my computer and go to Laurentien Uni, then I'll give you my old mobo and celeron. Hell, I'll throw in a Radeon. |
BMF98567
Posts: 506/1261 |
I could send you my SOYO DRAGON Plus! board, which supports up to an Athlon XP 2100+ (I believe), though replacing the leaky capacitors would be entirely your responsibility.  |
HyperLamer
Posts: 2237/8210 |
Bleh. Yeah, I need to upgrade, but the one I have in mind costs 1 grand US, which means I have a total of 1 grand US to go.  |
neotransotaku
Posts: 1818/4016 |
I remember for my Dell, that max CPU it supported was a P2-450 and I already had P2-400. Anyways, considering how archiac the machine is, I do agree that you are better off buying a brand new computer than just simply upgrading the CPU. Not unless your motherboard does support a pentium CPU...you have to verify that with the HP technical specs of your system. |
BMF98567
Posts: 503/1261 |
I don't believe that CPU would work in your system, unfortunately. From what I could gather (and finding upgrade info for your computer was not very easy), the fastest CPU you could probably put in there would be an 850MHz Coppermine PIII w/100MHz FSB. You might just be better off getting a whole new computer, unless there's a big performance difference between the Celeron and the PIII, or you can find such a CPU for a decent price. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 2220/8210 |
I want this piece of poo to go faster. Here's what's in it (Pavillion XG843) according to HP.com:
*Intel Celeron 800 MHz processor
*Socket 370
*100 MHz FSB
Here's what I want (couldn't find anything better) according to newegg.com:
Model: Intel Pentium III
Core: Tualatin
Operating Frequency: 1.13GHz
FSB: 133MHz
Cache: L1/16K+16K; L2/256K
Voltage: 1.5V
Process: 0.13Micron
Socket: Socket 370
Multimedia Instruction: MMX, SSE, SSE2
Packaging: OEM(Processor Only)
So would that work in this computer? Is it worth it? (They're asking 50 bucks US, but unless they stop the 'only ships to US' crap pretty quick, I won't be buying it there for obvious reasons.  ) Or is there some way I could just overclock this one? |
