I'm looking at upgrading the processor in my PC. I've found the correct one (socket type and FSB), but my question is, can I just take out my old one, and put in the new one without having to re-install all my OS and software? I've been told, by a collegue, that it is as simple as that, but thought I'd check with some of you IT type peeps on here :bow: :D

 

TIA

Not an IT man myself but........

I have done this before and it has worked.

NO different. OUt with the old and put in your new one.

 

What may happen is the computer will say the CPU doesnt match up, press F1 to continue or go into bios.

 

If that happens, follow the instructions, and if you go into the bios. Just save and exit.

In most cases this will work. You may need to reconfig the BIOS (as Stu suggests) to set the new clock speed etc.

NO different. OUt with the old and put in your new one.

 

What may happen is the computer will say the CPU doesnt match up, press F1 to continue or go into bios.

 

If that happens, follow the instructions, and if you go into the bios. Just save and exit.

 

 

Sorry forgot to mention this bit :wack:

 

oh and make sure your motherbord supports the speed of the processor or you may have to flash the bios of your motherboard. check motherboard manufactures website for details.

In most cases this will work. You may need to reconfig the BIOS (as Stu suggests) to set the new clock speed etc.

 

 

But before you panic, about 99% of computer will do this automatically now. Only old ones require to do this manually.

Thanks guys, much appreciated :bow: :bow:

 

Yep I've checked with the motherboards web site and all the specs line up niceley.

I've also read that I may be able to overclock the new processor, from 2.4 to around 3.06, is this right?

 

Incidentley, before you ask, it's a Socket 478, with a FSB of 533, I can either go for a Intel Celeron D upto 2.4Gb, for around £40 to £50, or a Intel Pentium also upto 2.4, for around £85. Will probably go for the Celeron, as I cant see spending almost double the price worth it, as I've run this PC on a 1.8Gb celeron for the last 3 years now.

Dont forge to use an earth strap when working on your PC, you dont wnto to blow it up.

Celerons are good for doing the simple things. They start to struggle when you start doing multi tasking.

 

Its like they have the Horse Power of a Pentium but dont have the same torque. ;)

 

Over clocking is not an easy thing to do mate. YOu have to have good cooling on your computer and you have to be good at chaning the vaultage of your computer. Oh you you should really have some good expensive memory.

 

All in all mate I dont think its worth it.

Celerons are good for doing the simple things. They start to struggle when you start doing multi tasking.

 

Its like they have the Horse Power of a Pentium but dont have the same torque. ;)

 

Over clocking is not an easy thing to do mate. YOu have to have good cooling on your computer and you have to be good at chaning the vaultage of your computer. Oh you you should really have some good expensive memory.

 

All in all mate I dont think its worth it.

Thanks mate :bow:

Just about everything else has been updated recentley, so I think the only thing holding this one back is the processor now. I'm quite happy with the Celeron, I don't do many things at the same time anyway, so a hike from 1.8 to 2.4 should do it for me. I cant go any higher than 2.4 without changing the motherboard, and thats not on the cards yet. And the overclocking sounds like it could be a pain in the ar5e, so I'll give that a miss then :D

I swapped a processor on my pc from Athlon 1333 to Athlon XP2400, was running windows xp pro and it blue screened me. I had to put in the cdrom and repair the installation..... The bios seemed to pick up the new cpu fine and dandy though :D

 

Just a thought.

Thanks chaps for all your help on this last week. I managed to find a 2.6 celeron chip, which I orded and have just fitted... peice of p155 :D Just cleaned off the underside of the heatsink, inserted the processor, smeared some thermal greese on it and reassembled it all. Booted up first time with no problems at all :D

So a very big thank you to all :bow: :bow: :duffer:

 

So I'm now running.....

2.6Gb Celeron processor,

80Gb HDD,

768Mb Ram,

1x DVD/CD RW combi drive & 1x DVD Ram RW drive,

On Windows XP Home (SP2),

With a 1Mb Broadband connection,

 

Hmmmmmmmmmm not bad at all :D nothing too special, probably more than I'll need but at least it'll work nicely!

Dont forge to use an earth strap when working on your PC, you dont wnto to blow it up.

 

 

Christ! does any one actually use earthing straps? Seven years in IT and the only time ive ever seen anyone use them is when people are being trained on PC repair for the first time! :D

Christ! does any one actually use earthing straps?

 

Never ever used one myself, been tinkering since 96, having said that I knew a guy who blew his new hard drive cos of static (either that or he was lying to cover his clumsiness).

 

Daves_new_z- don't worry bout overclocking it too much, just make sure your bios temp alarms are set so that you get an alarm and automatic shutdown before anything melts. Just remember you can't actually overclock very many MHz before you start to generate more heat than your fans can get rid of, a couple of hundred quid spent on water cooling should help- search for something called a 'zalman reserator', I hear they're dead easy to install.