Re: P4 upgrade

Mostly useless info. Go to http://www.belarc.com and download and

run their free software which will scan your computer and

return real information, such as exactly what CPU you have

installed.

I know that Intel P4 come in Socket 478 and 775 and are not

interchangeable. Never heard of a Socket N.

Probably there is no better CPU upgrade that will provide

any real improvement to your computer. You most likely have

some version of the Intel 478 with a 533 MHz FSB, the

fastest 478 CPU that you can get is probably a 2.8 GHz and

will show you very little improvement.

Your speed is determined by the FSB which controls disk

access speeds and the CPU which does the computations.

To get more speed increase your RAM to 1 GB or more and get

the fastest graphics card you can, on a 533 mobo, that will

probably be a 8x AGP card.

"Donjawon" <donjawon@NOSPAMsbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:4AtHg.11188$1f6.1082@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...

| Ok. From the DeLL homepage I was able to get the following

information.

| CPU = Part# C1427 PROCESSOR, 80532, 2.26, 512K, 533,

SOCKET N, DECISION

| ONE

| Motherboard = Part# H1639 CARD (CIRCUIT), PLANAR

(MOTHERBOARD), MIDPLANE,

| PWS360, AUDIO/NIC

|

| Please help me make heads and tails of this. I have lost

my manual and

| cannot find any .pdf files that you refered to.

|

|

| Thanks again,

| Donjawon

|

|

| "GS" <GS@EdmNoMail.net> wrote in message

| news:OvbOLT%23xGHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

| > need more details.

| >

| >

| > You should be able to extract from you Dell PC manual

( physcial or PDF)

| > what kind of P4 CPU (slot type, fsb, clock to cpu

ratio), even type of CPU

| > inluding max GHZ, acceptable from thereH1639

|

| >

| >

| > Good Luck

| >

| > "Donjawon" <donjawon@NOSPAMsbcglobal.net> wrote in

message

| > news:A4rHg.493$Cq4.388@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...

| >> Hello. I currently have a Pentium 4 2.26 Ghz processor

in a DeLL pc. I am

| >> looking to upgrade to the best P4 that I possibly can.

Problem is that

| > while

| >> I am capable of switching chips in and out my technical

knowledge is very

| >> limited. I am not sure what specifications the new chip

would have to

| > match

| >> in order to work in the same slot as the current cpu.

Would anyone out

| > there

| >> know off-hand what chips would fit in its place or be

able to tell me

| >> what

| >> to look at inside my rig to find out? Also what would

be the most

| >> powerful

| >> P4 available to upgrade to? A 3 Gig?

| >>

| >>

| >

| >

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