What is the most compatible way to upgrade CPU? 1

[DAVETHEWIZARD45]

I have a three year old E-Machine T-1840 with that screaming 1.8ghz Celeron.
I have upgraded everything over this time, ram 1gig,2 barracuda drives with 8mg caches,fans,burners,software tweaks to the sky.....but under a lot of load the 1.8 gets bottlenecked,[not locking up though], say if i'm converting video files, or running bitorrent[i'm on cable].
I found a new 2.6ghz Celeron with the same specs, 400mhz FSB,128k L2 cache and so forth.
Would it be worth the money[noticable difference],$79.00 to install the 2.6ghz 400mhz 128k, or would a higher FSB work with the OEM trigem MOBO?
It has a phoenix ver6 bios in which the CPU stats are not selectable....maybe auto-detected?
Thanks for your input.

 

[paparazi]

Pre Prescott Celeron D CPU's were very poor performers, the difference between the Cely and a full P4 was substantial, so my advice would be to find an old 400fsb P4 2.4? or similar which would give you a fair performance booste.
A 533fsb P4 would be even better if this board will support it? sorry I cannot find any info on this.

A cheap upgrade bundle (CPU/Motherboard/ram) might be another option.

Martin



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[mainegeek]

Maybe something like a P4 2.0gig. I think the celeron 1.8 and the P4 2.0 both fit the socket 478 but I am not 100% certain.

 

[dneufarth]

Identify the motherboard. I'm not sure what you have, but some intel boards have the 400/533 front side bus along with a socket 478 cpu. If so, you may be able to put in the 2.4, 2.6, 2.8 or even 3.06 P4; may even support PC2700 ram. That would make for a nice improvement.

Dave

 

[tf1]

A direct answer to the title question: get an upgrade bundle (mobo, memory, processor). You will find that you will be chasing a different bottleneck around your system forever!



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