will a 533Mhz cpu run on a  400 mhz motherboard at reduced speed?
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it will work only if you know how to underclock. my suggestion is to buy a new motherboard and start from scratch. since you allreay have a box then upgrading is easy. you need to price what you want to upgrade to by going to newegg.com or computergeeks.com. compare prices and maybe even upgrade your box. prices for complete systems run around 400$-1000$ depending on what you want.good hunting\nand its not recommended to upgrade a pc with a new cpu that runs faster than what the board can handle.you will eventualy run into more problems than its worth.\nbe sure to stick with a ddr(ram) board.\n\nand for the record,you can get cheap hardware and software from these two sites.\n\nThe MaddMann\n\nps:here is a bare bones system that you put together:\nhttp://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=J-S775KIT-K10&cat=BBK
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Yes, they work together fine.  My parents have a Gateway Performance 750 and when upgrading I could not find a PC100 stick of RAM anywhere for some reason.  I used PC133 and it works fine.  For the best performance you should use matching RAM (though I don't think it will really matter if you have to use 100MHz or 133MHz RAM - still slow).  This is to make sure that there is no bottleneck within the memory pathways and that the timings are identical.
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There might be, but it makes no sense.\n\n550 MHz is glacially slow.  You will have to upgrade most of your system, including the motherboard, CPU, and RAM, to get anywhere near today's standards for performance.
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Depends moderately on the application but generally you'll find bus speed will have more effect as usually the bottleneck is not the processor itself but the pathways into and out of the processor.
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it doesnt mean the processor speed it has nothing to do with it. This processor has a 2.2 GHz processor. The 3500+ is just used to tell people its different from the older 3100+ version which is used on cheaper computers. For the 64, its an advanced AMD64 which allows the processor to run 32-bit applications at full speed while enabling 64-bit software applications.
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There is A LOT more things that determine the speed of a processor rather than clock speed. Just because the clock is 500GHz, doesn't mean the computer will be able to process data any faster. \n\nBesides, once you begin to go beyond 300GHz you start to enter the Infared light spectrum.\n\nSounds like BS to me. It's not going to be practical at all.
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Sure, it's possible, but some motherboards pose a limitation on processor speed and use different sockets, like the motherboard I have now supports from Pentium 4 1.4 to 3.06 GHz and Celeron 1.7-2.8, but looking at your specifications on the HP website, you have an Intel Celeron (TM) 733 MHz processor. That is the height of the Pentium 3 or 4 area, which means you can probably expand it with the existing motherboard, but not by much (probably another 200MHz).\n\nSince it is a manufacturer motherboard, chances are it is further limited to the amount of processors it can support. The supplier of your motherboard, but 1. HP doesn't release the model number of it and 2. The English version is down for whatever reason and I can't read Korean ;-) .\n\nAlso, most retail outlets would only stock the more "modern" parts (e.g. 2.0+ GHz range), you're less likely to find a processor unless you go on eBay, but even then it'll need the accompanying motherboard, but even that poses its own dilemmas.
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for processor: between 1.6 GHz and 2.8 GHz is good for intel prcessors(Pentium 4,celeron, Pentium M), 400-533 MHz for bus speed.
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It's very likely but it'll be sluggish if it's lower than your motherboards requirements.
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it is compatable with the following CPUs\n\nAMD Athlon™ XP Processors\nAMD Athlon™ Processors\nAMD Duron™ Processors\n\ncopy the threee lines of this link for complete compatability\n\nftp://ftp.fic.com.tw/\nmotherboard/cpu_table/\nsocketa/at31.pdf
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Yes 1.4 Ghz is fine for casual computing tasks like surfing, chat etc. Besides on a laptop processors usually have a failsafe feature that won't allow it to exceed certain speeds because of the heat it will generate. So even if the manufaturer says it's rated at 1.x Ghz, in reality the processor will be by default limited to about 80% of that figure for most of the time. Unless you're going to do 3d modelling or video editing, it really isn't a big deal save for the price.\n\nSince you have 512MB memory, then that's good to go.
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No.   The Motherboard will specify exactly what processor chips that it can take.   It will specify Intel or AMD.  It will specify the number of pins.  It will specify the voltage.  it will secify the processor speed.  It will specify the matching RAM.\n\nThis is not simply.   When picking out a motherboard, pick out the matching Processor chip that you want to run with it.   \n\nLook at a good website like http://www.newegg.com and look what others have said about the boards that they have purchased.  Go with the ones that people have had success with.
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if ur machine is limited to 2100 then it should work but will run at 2100 speeds unless you overclock .... i wouldnt mix up the ram though ... if ur getting a gig of 2700 try it by itself without the old stuff in ... if its not stable u may need to bump the ram volts a  .1 or so up if ur bios allows it ...
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it depends on the bus speed of your computer im guessing at 2.7 ghz it should be pc2700 but more likely pc3200 and it depends on if your running ddr sd ram or just sd ram and dont buy the bargain ram spend the money on the more expensive ram its more dependable
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yep it should work fine as long as you have a spare pci slot and if your board has onboard sound you may have to dissable that as well. It may be helpful to upgrade your ram to 256 MB to speed things up a bit
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It works.  How do I know?  I run this setup in my system.\n\nMemory modules typically have no problems running at a slower rate.  The only issue maybe be that SPD (Serial Presence Detect) or the configuration that the RAM has stored internally may need to be overriden in BIOS.  If your motherboard is set to use SPD setting, it may try to run the RAM at PC3200 if your motherboard supports it.\n\nI manually set the setting on my computer to run it at PC2700 in BIOS and it was good to go. \n\nSide note: I could have ran it as PC3200 but I wanted my computer to run SYNCHRONOUSLY (i.e. FSB and Memory Clock running at the same rate.) instead of running the FSB at 333 and Memory at 400.
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Sorry I was wrong you are going to have to go with the thoroughbred because of your motherboard and 266Mhz FSB