I have an older dell (Dimension 5100). Motherboard stats pulled from Belarc Advisor:
Board: Dell Inc. 0J8885
Serial Number: ..CN6986154P034D.
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A03 07/07/2006
It is such a pain to find information for my board. My fault for buying from a manufacturer I suppose. Anyway, browsing on NewEgg I found "Intel Celeron E3300 Wolfdale 2.5GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor". I have a P4 3GHz, but even being a Celeron for only $50 it looks like a great way to give some new life into my rig. I don't quite have the money to build a new PC, so I have to settle with this one for a little. But will the mobo be able to use the new CPU? Any way to know before spending the money?
I was also looking at my RAM, I have 2 1Gig DDR2 533MHz sticks. I think 533MHz is the max for my mem slots, but I'm not sure. Would I see any performance increase replacing these with 800MHz?
And my last question is on 64bit, an easy upgrade, but is it worth it?
If you need any more info, just ask.
Thanks for any help.
Board: Dell Inc. 0J8885
Serial Number: ..CN6986154P034D.
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A03 07/07/2006
It is such a pain to find information for my board. My fault for buying from a manufacturer I suppose. Anyway, browsing on NewEgg I found "Intel Celeron E3300 Wolfdale 2.5GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor". I have a P4 3GHz, but even being a Celeron for only $50 it looks like a great way to give some new life into my rig. I don't quite have the money to build a new PC, so I have to settle with this one for a little. But will the mobo be able to use the new CPU? Any way to know before spending the money?
I was also looking at my RAM, I have 2 1Gig DDR2 533MHz sticks. I think 533MHz is the max for my mem slots, but I'm not sure. Would I see any performance increase replacing these with 800MHz?
And my last question is on 64bit, an easy upgrade, but is it worth it?
If you need any more info, just ask.
Thanks for any help.