Changing Intel celeron chip to pentium 4

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Rednut68

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#73491 14-Dec-2010 20:56

I have an HP Pavilion a1500a(Manufacture June 2006)
which is currently running an Intel Celeron 346(P) 3.06 GHz processor
533MHz front side bus
Socket 775
Motherboard:ECS RC410-M
I am wondering how far i can upgrade the processor,with a Pentium 4?Dual Core?and what the potential benefits could be.
Any help appreciated

johnr

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#417258 14-Dec-2010 21:00

You will have to check the mother Board specs and what it supports

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#417291 14-Dec-2010 21:36

IME, good luck with the branded machines unless they actually sold it with that processor as an option.

I have some older ones here I decided to invest in a $20 P4 to get a little more speed out of them (socket 478 era ones) - get bios messages about micro code and something else, but they boot and run, not sure if they are really any faster because its probably like comparing a morris 1000 with a mini 1000 - they are both woefully inadiquite.

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#417733 15-Dec-2010 16:11

Hi, based on HP:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00638516
and ECS:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?CategoryID=1&DetailID=601&DetailName=Feature&MenuID=24&LanID=8

The fastest cpu could be an Intel Pentium D950, because of the maximum 800MHz fsb what the chipset supports.

I think you can boost the speed up with buying a cheap ssd instead of upgrading the CPU.

Cheers,

MCSE+M/S, MCITP