My grandson has a Dell Dimension 5100 and wants to upgrade his cpu.
His original specs say he has a FC754, Processor, 80547, Pentium 4 Prescott DT, 2.8Ghz, 1 Megb, 533fsb, socket T, E0, Male.
He has 1gb ram memory and a 128mb nVidia 6600 video card.
He basically plays online games like Planetside on it.
What do we need to look for to replace such a cpu?
No sites we have visited show a relationship between computer and cpu to allow choosing.
Dell says (generically) that they put Intel Pentium 4 5xxx and 6xxx processors with Hyper-Threading technology in their Dell Dimension 5100s with 16kb level 1 cache and 1mb (5xxx) or 2mb (6xxx) level 2 cache ...but... their list of his components does not even mention a 5xxx or 6xxx number.
He found an Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0Ghz LGA 775 Processor at Newegg.
Will it work in his machine? and will it be better for gaming?
Thanks!
His original specs say he has a FC754, Processor, 80547, Pentium 4 Prescott DT, 2.8Ghz, 1 Megb, 533fsb, socket T, E0, Male.
He has 1gb ram memory and a 128mb nVidia 6600 video card.
He basically plays online games like Planetside on it.
What do we need to look for to replace such a cpu?
No sites we have visited show a relationship between computer and cpu to allow choosing.
Dell says (generically) that they put Intel Pentium 4 5xxx and 6xxx processors with Hyper-Threading technology in their Dell Dimension 5100s with 16kb level 1 cache and 1mb (5xxx) or 2mb (6xxx) level 2 cache ...but... their list of his components does not even mention a 5xxx or 6xxx number.
He found an Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0Ghz LGA 775 Processor at Newegg.
Will it work in his machine? and will it be better for gaming?
Thanks!