will a 533Mhz cpu run on a  400 mhz motherboard at reduced speed?
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if both cpu's are 478 pin and by 533 Mhz you mean the Fornt Side Bus...a 533 Mhz FBS cpu will NOT work on a 400 Mhz FSB motherboard even though the cpu is a 478 pin....the computer will not start up.
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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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It's very likely but it'll be sluggish if it's lower than your motherboards requirements.
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the 3.4 ghz ee processor runs on a 478 socket so it should work but be carefull though i may be wrong
106223
Doubtful. Your PC is most likely a 478 or even 423 socket. You will have to replace it with a like socketed chip and one that your BIOS understands. eBay a P4 2.4 same socket is probably the fastest you will get your BIOS to support, check with the motherboard manufacturer on CPU support since you did not give enough information here.
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honestly, junk it \n\nmuch cheaper than searching 4 old processors not knowing if they work at all\nget a new p4 nope, get a pentium dual core ... just say yes ... lottsa ideas then
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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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Not much, I bet! You can't maximize the dual-processor capability if you are just using windows xp unless you are planning to install a windows server software. \n\nBesides, a motherboard with dual-processor capability is much more expensive than an ordinary m/board. You might need a new CPU case as well to fit the dual-processor board.
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if i were you i would NOT do it.Send it to a computer guy if you still wanna overclock it.
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THE INTEL DUO CORE IS MUCH MORE BETTER THAN INTEL PENTUM M \n\nIT RUNS AT 667MHZ  FSB AND M RUNS AT MAX 400MHZ
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Your 3 ghz pc will be obsolete. However the race to compete with higher and higher clockspeeds is ending (to an extent) Recent and future performance increases will come from extra cores and improved architecture. By 2010 clockspeed won't be the important factor in pc performance.
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Yes belive it or not CPUs are the least of your problems. Even the best games can be played well on a single core 3500+ AMD64 Processor.  Some older games have problems with dual core CPUs but there are ways to get around them. Games made recently and being made now are made to work better with two cores then with a single so go with a dual core for sure.  \n\nI use 2x 5000+ AMD64 CPU. and its overkill and I play the very most leading edge games at piratically maxed stats.  \n\nBut the ram and video card is much more important then CPU.\n\n\n\nThe 3800+ 2x will do well but you may want to grab a 4200+ dual core AMD64 CPU.
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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 seems like your mobo only supports  533 MHz Front Bus , and the P4 Northwood 3.2Ghz is 800MHz Front Bus. In other words it won't read your processor up to its maximum clock speed.\n\nThe max speed that you can find with 533MHz front bus is 2.8GHz. You can check the manufacturer website and see if the latest bios support 800MHZ, if so then Flash the bios. Otherwise the only option is change the MB.
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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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Of course you'll se the difference! Not mainly in speed but mostly regarding the entire ysstem stability.. The only problem is that at this time many applications are still written in 32-bit and eventualy don't support 64-bit applications. It's the only disadvantage, and I could say minor because very soon 64 bit will be the new standard for cpu processing!
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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.