OT - CPU Question

[Kenn Cook]

Personally I liked the Northwood better than the Prescott.  Your major 
speed improvement will come from the 768M to 2G memory upgrade.  Unless 
you know that the main-board can handle the 3.0ghz @ 800mhz fsb I would 
take the safe route and buy the Northwood (2.8ghz @ 533mhz fsb).  
Changing the CPU from a 2.2ghz celeron to a 2.8ghz P4 with HT will be a 
big difference as well.  Celeron vs PentiumX is always a dramatic 
difference and the performance celeron is defiantly seen as the economy 
chip.

Kenn Cook


Wade Smart wrote:
> 08252007 0914 GMT-6 DST
>
> One of my desktops is a Gateway 300S with a Intel ESSEX2 motherboard. Im
> running a 2.2GHz Celeron with 400mhz front bus. It (the specs) say I
> could also be running a P4. I contacted Gateway and they said that while
> they do not offer a upgrade CPU for this system, yes you can upgrade
> yourself the cpu.
>
> Even though I build Shuttles left and right, Im a bit at a loss on this
> next part as I havent done this before.
>
> This is from the docs:
> "The motherboard has a 478-pin zero insertion force (ZIF) socket that
> supports a single Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or a single Intel Celeron™
> processor based on the Pentium 4 architecture. The standard host bus
> speed of the motherboard is 100 megahertz (MHz). However, the processor
> uses a dual-clock, un-pipelined processing method that achieves system
> bus speeds up to 533 MHz."
>
> I also discovered that my 1GB limit is actually 2GB.
>
> So, what Im doing is upgrading the ram from 768 to 2gb and wanting to up
> the CPU. Looking at Newegg I see quiet a few choices but, most of them
> are 800MHz. If I get say a P4 3.0E Prescott 3GHz that is 800MHz even
> though I have a 533MHz, will the CPU just run a bit slower or, would a
> P4 2.8 Northwood running at 533MHz be a better choice?
>
> Or, I noticed that the Gatway docs say I could run a 3.06 P4 HT 
> (hyper-threading) on this motherboard. I think that might only require a 
> BIOS update. Its the same motherboard.
>
> Im really hoping to run Fiesty better with these improvements because at
> the moment, this computer is running slower and slower. And looking 
> towards Gutsy Im thinking a stronger overall system would greatly 
> benefit me.
>
> wade
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