Processor upgrade question

[Simon]

Hi,
I have built a few PCs in my time and had no problems. Now the dumb
question, I have a customer who was asking about upgrading the processor
on a computer of theirs (I'm a network guy really) the processor is an
intel socket 478 with a celeron 2.4 in there at the moment, is it ok to
replace this with any other 478 socket processor or are there other
gotchas ? I'm going to recommend he ditches the mbo and proc anyway and
go athlon 64 as the rest of his components are pretty good and he's
getting into video editing.
thanks for any replies
simon

 

[KC Computers]

I have built a few PCs in my time and had no problems. Now the dumb

question, I have a customer who was asking about upgrading the processor
on a computer of theirs (I'm a network guy really) the processor is an
intel socket 478 with a celeron 2.4 in there at the moment, is it ok to
replace this with any other 478 socket processor or are there other
gotchas ? I'm going to recommend he ditches the mbo and proc anyway and
go athlon 64 as the rest of his components are pretty good and he's
getting into video editing.

You should find out what make and model the motherboard is.
Some S478 motherboards only support CPUs with a FSB
speed up to 533MHz while 800MHz ones are faster.
You can then upgrade the S478 Celeron CPU with a faster
P4 one.

 

[bb]

Hi,
I have built a few PCs in my time and had no problems. Now the dumb
question, I have a customer who was asking about upgrading the processor
on a computer of theirs (I'm a network guy really) the processor is an
intel socket 478 with a celeron 2.4 in there at the moment, is it ok to
replace this with any other 478 socket processor or are there other
gotchas ? I'm going to recommend he ditches the mbo and proc anyway and
go athlon 64 as the rest of his components are pretty good and he's
getting into video editing.
thanks for any replies
simon

Older socket 478 boards don't support Prescott chips, which is what all
P4's are now. You'll need to find out what board it is and if it can
handle Prescott.

 

[DaveW]

He can NOT use just any P4. Each motherboard and it's BIOS has a list of
compatible P4 models.

 

[Simon]

He can NOT use just any P4. Each motherboard and it's BIOS has a list of
compatible P4 models.

Thanks all for the replies, much appreciated.
simon