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Name: hookembad
Date: September 17, 2009 at 15:05:22 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Product: Intel Pentium 4 - 2.0ghz processor
Subcategory: General
Comment:

Hi, I'm wanting to upgrade my P4 2.0GHz
(here is all I could get from Dell)
Processor,80532,2.0G,512K, 400FSB,Socket N

It's in a Dell Dimension 8200
I'm wanting to upgrade to something like this
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-4...
Not sure if this possible, thank you for taking the time to read this!



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Response Number 1
Name: jam
Date: September 17, 2009 at 15:14:01 Pacific
Reply:

Does your motherboard support 800MHz FSB CPUs? Nope:

http://support.dell.com/support/edo...


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Response Number 2
Name: hookembad
Date: September 17, 2009 at 15:31:07 Pacific
Reply:

Ok i see.
So this 3.06 GHz processor with a 533 Front side bus would work?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-4...


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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: September 17, 2009 at 15:57:23 Pacific
Reply:

One of the more 'P4 savy' guys should be able to tell you if the 3.06GHz laptop CPU will work in a desktop motherboard.


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Response Number 4
Name: hookembad
Date: September 17, 2009 at 16:01:05 Pacific
Reply:

Yeh, I'm pretty sure I'm going to just get a 2.8GHz P4 and overclock it later.
Thank you so much for your help!


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Response Number 5
Name: jam
Date: September 17, 2009 at 16:59:58 Pacific
Reply:

http://www.starmicro.net/SearchResu...

BTW, what speed RAM do you have & how much?


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Response Number 6
Name: hookembad
Date: September 18, 2009 at 10:23:47 Pacific
Reply:

I have 1GB of RAM.
I'm note sure what the speed is.


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