Help with CPU Upgrade

[Coleh_Broleh]

I have a Packard bell iStart F2130 AI0 with a Pentium D 925 Inside of it. I bought a Intel core 2 duo a while ago and will soon be installing it. My Packard Bell i think supports up to 1066MHz in FSB and so i am worried my CPU wont be able to be used to it's full potential, and that it wont work at all.If it helps here is a pic of the motherboard. At the next to one of the CPU's corners is a VR necessary for them to work.http://www.computer-store-berlin.de/ebay/bilder/Gigabyte-GA-T671MG-Packard-Bell-Mainboard-Sockel-775.JPG. Edit 1:Yeah i found it it supports a max of 800MHz fsb.The cpu may still work, but how bad of a decrease am i looking at?http://www.findlaptopdriver.com/specs-ga-t671mg-motherboard/

 

[Coleh_Broleh]

Edit seeing as no one had bothered to give any input how to calculate FSB. A cpu with a FSB 800MHz is acctually clocked at a 200MHz.Cpu multipliers than affect that clock reading and add onto it. For example a Pentium D 925 Runs at 200MHz but, then the clock multiplyer of 15 makes it 3000GHz or so.The clock multiplyer is the key here.Overclocking in the bios can be where you increase the multiplyers.A 20 MHz increase in the fsb would equal to 1980MHz for the Core 2 Duo E8400 on a 800FSB Motheboard, and for a Pentium D it would become 3300MHz.If you find the helpful bookmark it, and use it to help others in the future.Message me to help you calculate overclocking with fsb!

 

[photonboy]

Um..

I wouldn't expect much throttling. You can easily test this anyway by running Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL...) by using a stress test like Prime95. Do you see about 100% usage? If so, the CPU is not being bottlenecked.

Your main issues are likely not related to the CPU at all, but will depend on what you do:

1) System RAM (DDR/DDR2 likely):
- if not in Dual-Channel it MIGHT cause a small bottleneck to the CPU
- if not ENOUGH (i.e. 2GB or more) your system would likely feel sluggish depending on what you're doing

2) Hard Drive:
- the CPU has little involvement here. The bottleneck is the drive itself which can make everything feel sluggish. An SSD on an older system, even with "only" a SATA1 connection is a huge improvement.

3) Graphics Card:
- mostly only need something half decent for games though.