CPU upgrade

[michaelmichael]

info please

i have an OME intel board D845WN
1.6 ghz-
bus speed 400mhz
L1 cache data cache 8kb execution trace cache 12k
L2 cache advance transfer cache 2048KB
ZIF socket
stepping 4

can i upgrade the cpu  and if so to what level speed and will it have all of the above characteristics or better

ram is sdramm at pc133

is there a way to increase the ram speed
currently 512 ram.  to increase to 1gig will it improve my system's performance

thanks for the info

michaelmichael

[ctjoyce]

You can upgrade your CPU. Any socket 478 intel will work (I suggest a 3.4Ghz northwood). Also you can upgrade your RAM to 1G and seea a big difference.

However if I were you I would update your mobo to something a little more current. PC-133 is good old stuff, but is way slow compaired to PC3200 Also with the new board you get the new LGA775 socket from intel (much faster data transfer) and a PCI-Exprexx x16 lane.

Cheers
Cameron

[elite marksman]

If you decide to update your mobo, I would recommend moving away from Intel. Intel chips are good media editing, but for games, AMD is by far better. If you go with an AMD mobo, get a socket 939, used by the 64 bit chips.

[michaelmichael]

thanks guys:
will evaluate and figure price into the equation

needless to say a new vid card would be inorder also to take advantage of the new computing power,  right guys

thanks again

michaelmichael

[ctjoyce]

Elite if he puts in a AMD chip and board, he is going to have to reinstall windows. Also if you have a Dell (possably HP) your going to need to buy a real copy of windows (not a recovery disk) as Dell's XP dosnt like other mobos

Cheers
Cameron

[elite marksman]

Hadn't thought of that. All the more reason to homebuild!

[ctjoyce]

One of many. But one thing I did like about my dell is that every year we returned it, and got the latest system for about half the cost. Was kinda nice, but now after homebuilding I will never ever go back.

Cheers
Cameron