Processor upgrade

Polaris573 · Jul 7, 2005

My friend has an old computer with and intel 850 chipset. this only supports the 400mhz FSB, if he buys a processor that used the 533 Mhz bus will it downclock to 400Mhz and still work?

If he can't use the 533 which would be better?

Celeron

P4

It already has a 1.8Ghz p4 would either of these result in a worthwile performance gain?

nightelf84 · Jul 7, 2005

This should prove useful to compare performance of different CPUs
http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html

Polaris573 · Jul 7, 2005

thanks

wazzledoozle · Jul 7, 2005

Get the celeron. Not worth the money for anything more, the lack of cache shouldnt hurt it that much.

Deleted member 3 · Jul 7, 2005

If the current CPU is a willamette upgrading to northwood will matter quite a lot. Also a 533 could easily run at 400Mhz though the multiplier is fixed so it will run at only 3/4 the original clockspeed (2.4/533 would run at 1.8/400) The board might be able to overclock it a bit to somewhere between 400-533 though.
The celeron is worthless, the ones that run on your board at least, the celeron D is pretty good actually, though won't run on your board most likely.

mixa · Jul 7, 2005

If the board can provide 133MHz FSB you`ll have no problem.

Polaris573 · Jul 7, 2005

thanks everyone.

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Motherboard	MSI P7N Diamond - 780i Chipset
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Case	Coolermaster Centurion 5
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
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Processor	LGA 775 Intel Q9550 2.8 Ghz
Motherboard	MSI P7N Diamond - 780i Chipset
Cooling	Arctic Freezer
Memory	6GB G.Skill DDRII 800 4-4-3-5
Video Card(s)	Sapphire HD 7850 2 GB PCI-E
Storage	1 TB Seagate 32MB Cache, 250 GB Seagate 16MB Cache
Display(s)	Acer X203w
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 5
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Power Supply	OCZ StealthXStream 600 Watt
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate x64

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Processor	LGA 775 Intel Q9550 2.8 Ghz
Motherboard	MSI P7N Diamond - 780i Chipset
Cooling	Arctic Freezer
Memory	6GB G.Skill DDRII 800 4-4-3-5
Video Card(s)	Sapphire HD 7850 2 GB PCI-E
Storage	1 TB Seagate 32MB Cache, 250 GB Seagate 16MB Cache
Display(s)	Acer X203w
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 5
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Power Supply	OCZ StealthXStream 600 Watt
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate x64

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