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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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