Is Pentium M for Desktop good enough or should I stick with Socket 478?
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Pentium M is for Mobile gadgets, it's intended for laptops notebooks, etc. Never use it for a desktop computer. Or if you want to make a light traffic print server, Celeron would make a nicer deal, M is way too powerful and way too expensive for things like that.
638010
They're both good but it's what you need and what you're going to use it for. Processors don't matter much if you're just doing MS Word, since a P2 can run it. If it's higher intense work, a higher processor and RAM should do the job. If it's gaming, video cards are what you need. \n\nSo for medium intense-ish, the Pentium M should do the work. For some gaming, you'll need a Geforce go 6600+/Ati Radeon xXXX and the Core Duo.
80888
I would strongly recommend you replace it with a Pentium M740 or M750. I don't know if the Mainboard also support the M760 and M770. But i'm pretty sure you cannot replace it with a P4.
1067104
The AMD X2 processor is great for games, the X2 4200+ is a good one thats not too costly but great, 2.2Ghz and good size cache.
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Yes !! go for P-IV processor with good speen and Intel orignal motherboard. \nYou memory should be 512 MB and higher \nYou may use graphic card for better
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I highly recommend the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dual core processor if you are thinking of multitasking. Each core is based pretty much on the Venice core, and has 512 KB L2 cache. Each core runs at 2.0GHz, which is the same speed as the 90 nanometer process Athlon 64 3200+.\nFor about the same price, the best single core processor is the Athlon 64 4000+, with the San Diego core. It has 1MB of L2 cache. This is likely a better gaming processor than the X2 3800+, because it has has a 400MHz speed advantage in one thread. It also has a 1MB L2 cache.\nCurrently, all mainstream games are single threaded, meaning that they can't utilize the capabilities that dual core processors have. The dual core processor will perform very nicely in the environment of your operating system, but it won't have an advantage in gaming. Most people predict that multi-threaded PC games will become more common in the next few years, but there is a good chance they will do nicely on older single threaded systems at lower speeds.\nWhen it comes to games, your graphics card is far more important than the speed of your processor. Normal multitasking benefits most from the processor.\nOverall, I would recommend the Athlon 64 X2 3800+.
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I would recommend this CPU:http://www.techfever.co.uk/products.asp?partno=8323&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=pricegrabber and this motherboard:http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=470940&source=pricegrabber\nThe Core 2 Duos are the best out right now, and ASUS motherboards are high quality motherboards.
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Huh... you know, I'm really not sure? They're the same socket, so it *will* fit.. but... they have different fsb speeds... so the motherboard might not support it. You'll probably need to contact the laptop's manufacturer to find out what motherboard is in the laptop, and then the motherboard manufacturer to find out what if it will support a Pentium M.
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I prefer my Pentium 4. It has-\n\n3.00 GHz (Reports of up to 4.00 GHz succesful overclocking!)\n800 MHz FSB\n1 MB L2 Cache (I'd have prefered two, but whatever)\n478-Pin (I think...)\nHyper-Threading (Doesn't work well with windowed 3D stuff though)
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I wouldn't recommand dual core, but other then that Pentium is a revolution in x86 based computer processing system. Pentium is a 32-bit processor design based on x86 model. There are number of processor types like x86, powerpc, amd64, powerpcg5 etc. Among them amd64 and powerpcg5 are the complete 64-bit processing technology, which has been implemented in the processors like amd opteron or apples G5 etc. Hyper Threading or HT means you'll have two processors in one processor area, and if you can devide your job of processing into two threads then it will be processed simultancely so it would be a lot faster, it really can make a very good performance.\n\nIf you are a professional computer user, and want to use processors for servers or high end workstation then you can try using Amd Opteron or Sun servers. But if you are a home user and you need a powerful machine for gaming then I'd say you can buy Pentium 4 with HT and as much as clock possible. Dual core's performance wouldn't be satisfactory comparing to the price of the of the processor. Use Intel manufactured mother board and a good video card like geforce 6800 or geforce 7 series in your pci express x16 slot, you should be able to run and play any game in current market or upcoming games in many days. But Pentium 4 is a 32-bit processor. If you don't have gaming in mind then you can try using the machines from Apple, you'll have a lot better performance and much reasonable price, and in this way you can have the power of 64 bit and it is a RISC processor so you'll have to use it feel the performance boost.
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Your CPU is a Socket 478 with a 400MHz FSB. You'd need to find a Pentium that fits that socket and uses a 400MHz FSB. Your upgrade options are limited because it is an older socket. An upgrade for your CPU would be about $100 for a 2.0GHz P4, but the benefits probably aren't going to be anything to write home about. I personnaly don't think it's worth the trouble. Save up and buy a new motherboard and CPU.
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I did not see the motherboard, but of those two cpu's go with amd for sure, it has more cache making it faster. I saw another thing that could be better, the hard drive is ata100 and that is somewhat slow, for about the same price you could get a sata2 3.0gb/s. (your motherboard has to support it) What is this computer going to be used for? It would help to know.
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uh, any 478 socket processor will work fine.
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I will suggest you Socket 939 for AMD Because it support SSE2 and SSE3 Instructions In witch You Can Run Appple Mac os x Tiger x86 10.4.6 Smoothly. I also Have Amd Athlon 64 3200+ Processor.
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ASUS boards are good for overclocking, just find one that has the number of PCI Express x16 slots you want and the right socket.
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Since you have a dell the chances are that your MB support a Pentium class processor- this would hugely upgrade your performance! See if you can find what "slot" type your processor is- infact being celeron it might be 478... Then your next step would be more memory... If you have any open slots then another 512 stick would be great. Newegg.com usually has great prices! These two components would be a great asset!
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Socket 775 becomes a leading platform for Intel processors, but Socket 478 will have been supported for a long time. However, all the novelties will in the first place be announced for Socket 775. \nLGA775 will become the world's first x86 desktop platform with DDR2 support. \nLGA775 processors will be marked using processor numbers instead of real clock rate. For example, today we'll test two such processors: Pentium 4 550 (3.4GHz) and Pentium 4 560 (3.6GHz). \nAlong with the new processors, the company announces two chipsets: Intel 915P Express and Intel 925X Express. The former is positioned for low- and middle-end systems and supports both DDR2 and DDR. The Intel 925X Express is designed for high-performance desktops and workstations and supports DDR2 only. \nBoth chipsets do not support AGP. Instead there's higher-speed PCI Express x16. For other devices the usual PCI backward compatibility is provided along with up to 4 x PCI Express 1x slots.