I have a Dell gx50  p3 pc with a 1.2ghz processorthat i need to chenge to a p3 intel pentium 866mhz processor from my compaq deskpro ENS.How can i do this if its feasible.
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Odds are you will need an adapter.\n\nIf I recall correctly, the 1.0 GHz chips were the last ones electrically compatible with the older boards.\n\nTo be honest, the odds are pretty good the the P3 actually benchmarks equally if not better.\n\nI'd test it before messing around with it.  Benchmark them with something like FreshDiagnose.
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Models vary somewhat, but you can probably get this to work...  Read and compare.\n\n ASUS P4S800D-X Socket 478 SiS 655FX ATX Intel Motherboard\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131527\n\nGood luck
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Depends on the computer, how old it is, what type of motherboard it has. A standard intel based PC usually has PCI slots available, in which case you could add a sound card and a USB card to get the ports you need.
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i would think you could, i also bought the dell oem disk a few years ago and it works on my pc which is a custom built pc with an athlon processor
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If you have both sticks inserted on your motherboard.The PC3200 WILL downgrade to pc2700. If you have a CPU that has a maximum FSB(front side bus) of 333MHz than pc3200 would have already been at pc2700. PC3200 is equal to 400MHz and PC2700 333MHz. So if your cpu has a fsb of 333MHZ than you will get actually more performance.But if your cpu has a FSB of 400MHz than you will lose a lot of speed.
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Go to the manufacturer site of your computer (Compaq, Dell, etc.) and search for drivers/downloads for your MODEL of computer.  Make sure you find the exact model that you have.  Look for the "chipset" download.\n\nPull that down, install the chipset.  Restart your computer.  If that does not work, please email me at mgopher007@yahoo.com
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The Athlon XP is a socket A cpu.  It is not made with sse2 or sse3.  The 3000+ is the 2nd fastest socket a  only the 3200+ is faster and would not be worth the cost of the upgrade, not enough performance difference to justify it.  \nThe Turion is the new mobile chip based on socket 754.  754 is on it's way out as socket 939 is the current AMD standard.  \nThe only way you will be able to upgrade would be to install a new mobo and chip.  Odds are your memory would be fine as 754 and 939 both use DDR.  Both 754 and 939 mobos can use AGP video cards, just make sure that you don't accidently buy a pci-express board if you intend to re-use your video card.  PCI-express is replacing AGP and is evidently the future of video cards.
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Pretty good stuff u got there, i have an X2 myself.\nIts best if u first check if u can overclock it through the motherboard though BIOS. There are programs like Riva tuner ( for your video card ) http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/ , Also there are utilities to OC your processor but i can;t give u any names since i don;t use any, i use the BIOS setting of my motherboard which is Biostar T-Force 6100-939 and it has some pretty good overclocking abilities. Hope this helps
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How comes you're using XP Pro on a "P3 class" Celeron with only 64MB Ram. This is a mismatch that couldn't be greater. To run XP Pro you need at least 256MB and even this is low. I suppose you previously had W98 or W98SE, go back to that OS to increase the speed without upgrading the hardware.\n\nBut if you want to stay with the XP Pro, you have to upgrade the memory to the maximum (512MB ?), this is not that expensive. But be careful, not even Crucial has the Ram type of the HP Pavilion 7700 in it's database, so it seems your system may require proprietary or non-standard Ram.
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first check your motherboard if it's able to take a 3.0GHz CPU. Further, check which socket is on the mobo. There are 2 different sockets - one is a socket 478 (for the P4 family 5x0) and a socket 775 (for the P4 family 6x0).\nI suppose you have a mobo with a 478 socket (due to the 2.40GHz CPU).
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two total DIMM slots upgradable to 512 MB\n\nFirst link is for your computer, second link is requirements for Windows XP.   Theoretically you can install XP on your system.  I don't think it would run very well and would probably run slower than what you currently have on it.  My suggestion would be to buy a new computer rather than purchasing XP.  I saw a Dell ad for a $300 computer system the other day.  It would be money better spent, it would be much faster and much more capable.\n\nAs far as the motherboard and processor the 550mhz AMD K6-2 in your system is the fastest of it's class.  Moving up would require more cost, I would still suggest buying new.
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With the Pentium 4, you will need to purchase 333MHz DDR SDRAM.  Each memory bank will hold 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, or 1GB of non-ECC memory for a minimum of 128MB and maximum of 2GB RAM.\n\nFrom what I can tell by Dell's support page for the Dimension 3000, there is no support for AGP or PCI-Express graphics expansion.  I kind of figured PCI-Express would be out of the question, but I was expecting an AGP slot.  At the moment, you are using integrated graphics which are taking up a bit of your RAM and processor resources.  You can increase the amount of system RAM the adapter uses by accessing the BIOS.\n\nIn order to upgrade, you will have to purchase a PCI graphics card.  As I stated above, your motherboard does not support AGP or the newer PCI-Express.  \n\nFor well under $100.00, you could get either an ATI Radeon 9250 or GeForce FX 5500, both with 256MB DDR.  These are not very good cards by today's standards for gaming and graphics, but will provide you with a significant system performance boost.  I don't think there are any PCI graphics cards that are better that those.
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The EMonster 500 comes with a 500MHz Pentium 3.  Unless the motherboard has been replaced then you will have something similar to that because the socket type of the motherboard will not allow you to switch to a processor that is not compatible.  \n\nThe PC is supposed to come with Windows 98SE.  The fact that you are running XP on it is great, but XP takes up more resources, thereby leaving you little room for graphics-intensive gaming.\n\nThe computer comes with 64MB of SDRAM, but is upgradeable to 256MB if you still have the original motherboard.\n\nShould have a 13GB hard drive, 8X DVD-ROM, and a 3dFX 2X AGP Voodoo3 2000 with 16MB VRAM\n\n\nFirst of all, in order to run Sims2 with a T&L (Transform and Lighting) capable graphics card with 32MB  VRAM (which you don't have), then you need at least an 800MHz processor and 256MB RAM.  \n\nWithout at least a 32MB T&L capable graphics card, you would need at least a 2.0GHz processor.\n\nYou could purchase either a decent PCI graphics card, or an AGP graphics card, even though you only have a 2X AGP port.  Here is a list of supported graphics cards.\n\nATI RadeonTM series (7000 or better) \nRadeon 7000/VE series (non-T&L; requires 2.0 GHz processor) \n7200, 7500 \n8500, All-In-Wonder 8500 \n9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 \nX300, X600, X800\n\n\nNvidia® QuadroTM series \nQuadro, Quadro2, Quadro4\n\n\nNvidia® Geforce series (GeForce2 and better) \nGeForce2 \nGeForce3, 3 Ti \nGeForce4, 4Ti, MX 420, 440 \nGeForce FX 5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950 \nGeForce 6600, 6800\n\n\nIntel® Extreme Graphics (non-T&L; requires 2.0 GHz processor) \n82845, 82865, 82915\n\nWith a decent graphics card, you MIGHT be able to get by with just a 500MHz processor.  But you will need to upgrade to 256MB RAM, for sure.\n\nAs for the USB ports. Go to Start - Run and type devmgmt.msc\n\nWhen the device manager opens, make sure your devices are viewed by Type by going to View and selecting 'Devices by type'.  Then at the bottom of the list expand the section that says 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers'.  If there are any errors you will notice either a red (X) or yellow (!).  If there is a red (X) then the device has simply been disabled.  Just right click and click 'Enable' and it will be fine.  If there is a yellow (!), then there is a problem with the device and it needs to be repaired.  Try disabling it then right click on "Computer" and select "Scan for hardware changes"  Let the computer install drivers, if any.  If not, search for any driver CDs that may have come with the system.\n\nIn response to morbid_bean, I used to unload trucks and sell electronics at Wal-Mart.  Wal-Mart does not "manufacture" the computers they sell.  The computers they sell are from HP, Compaq, and E-Machine - which are basically all HP computers being that Compaq builds EMachines and HP own Compaq.  Not all of Wal-Marts computers are crap.  They have a lot of budget systems for users who are only trying to do simple web surfing and word processing, but they do also sell more expensive performance systems.  Keep in mind that Wal-Mart is not exclusive to their electronics section and, thus, not expected to carry 'top-of-the-line' machines.  Besides, who the hell said anything about the computer being from Wal-Mart.  Even if it is, who cares?
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try the AMD website. I did this for intel and it worked well.
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Yes to increase the speed upgrade ur bios if the speed still not a 2.1Ghz then there is only way buy new procrsser like athalon xp  3800+ or latest atalon xp 4800+.
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According to Microstar you can use any Pentium 2 or 3 cpu between 233 and 700 Mhz.\nMake sure the one you buy is a slot 1 type and not a socket whatever.\nIt must support 100Mhz Front Side Bus (FSB) to work with your motherboard. Avoid the 133Mhz ones, so you'll be looking at 450, 500, 550, 600, 650 and 700 Mhz cpu's\nYou may need a bios upgrade but thats easy, get it here:\nhttp://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=105&kind=1\nCheck what version of 6119 you have to make sure it's compatible with the BIOS release, but I haven't had problems with faster cpu's in older boards before.\n\nAnother solution is to buy a motherboard and chip bundle to really fly, but you may have to change the ram as well.\n\nHTH\nAlan
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You can add RAM, change video cards and add additional cards without much incident.\n\nDell, however, does not use standard motherboards or power supplies; if you want to change those, you have to buy Dell parts as replacements, because standard mobos and ATX power supplies just won't fit in the case.