cragtom

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This P/B istart came with a celeron d360 and only 512k ram so about a year and a half ago I changed it to 2mb and a celeron e1200 as both chips are s775,800mhz and 65nm and the voltage was the same.
Now I am thinking of getting a newer celeron from the same family as the celeron e1200 a e14xx/15xx/16xx
But behold intel have brought out the e3xxx range of celerons but they are 45nm architecture instead of 65nm but this is the £64000 question?
As they are also socket 775,fsb 800mhz and run at the same voltage range of the e1xxx celerons will one work in mine?
The only difference is the on board cache 512 k for the older ones 1mb for the new ones
 
That is absolutly a pointless upgrade it will not give you any real performance gain to make it even worth considering. If you want an upgrade it might be time to get new motherboard or find out if it will accept a core 2 processor at the very least.

Don't waist your money!!!!
 

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At the time I could have pentium e2140,2160,2180,2200,or2220 celeron e1200,1400,1500, 1600 or even c2d up to 4600 as long as I stayed at fsb 800 and socket 775 but these new ones are 45nm instead of 65 nm