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| What to upgrade a 1.8ghz CPU to | |
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| GSMAN45 | Mar 19 2006, 09:53 PM Post #1 |
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I have a four year old E-Machine T-1840 with the 1.8ghz Celeron with Hyperthreading present. I have upgraded everything over this time, ram 1gig, 2 barracuda drives with 8mg caches,fans,burners,software tweaks to the sky.....but under a lot of load the 1.8 gets bottlenecked,[not locking up though], say if i'm converting video files, or running bitorrent[i'm on cable]. I found a new 2.6ghz Celeron with the same specs, 400mhz FSB,128k L2 cache and so forth. Would it be worth the money[noticable difference],$79.00 to install the 2.6ghz 400mhz 128k. Or would a higher FSB work with the OEM trigem imperial v1.03 MOBO? Ooorrr would higher cache and CPU [keeping the 400FSB] be preferrable? as you can tell this is one thing i'm not at all skilled in.....if any other specs are needed, ive got HWininfo on the case! It has a phoenix ver6 bios in which the CPU stats are not selectable....maybe auto-detected?.......Intel 845 GL chipset. Thanks for your input. |
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| csrjohn | Apr 26 2006, 09:57 AM Post #2 |
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First ID your Mobo & read THIS from TD's site Please read the whole page before jumping into the Upgrades section!!! Read the upgrades section, you'll see what others on this site have done with your board. Just Make sure you ID the board right!
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