Processor Upgrade

[Lowerinfinity]

I have a co-worker that is wondering about upgrading his processor. He has a 900mhz intel celeron, he's wanting to upgrade to a 2.0 or 2.1 ghz celeron. My question is, do all celeron processors use the same socket? I thought they did but i am not sure and i dont want him to go buy it and it not fit.

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[Un4gIvEn1]

No they do not. The 900 is a Celeron III where as the new ones are Celeron 4's... the III's use Socket 370 where as the 4's use Socket 478.


The chips he is looking at (2+ Ghz) are 4's. I think he can get up to 1.4Ghz with a Celeron III.

 

[sboulema]

correct
you will also need to buy a ne mobo and new ram cause p4 mobo doesnt support sdram anymore which he is probably still using

 

[jumpy]

Probably the highest he can go with that motherboard is a 1.1ghz coppermine celeron. That's because there are only a few motherboard's which support the tualatin celeron chips (256k L2 cache, 1.0ghz-1.4ghz), so you'll have to check if it does have tualatin support or not if you want to go down that route. I'll just let you know that the tualatin chips are a great chip and the 1.4ghz would probably be better than the 1.7 celeron.

Still, he might want to look at moving to a p4 board + ddr setup. Then there's always the option to upgrade to a real processor