[geeks] p4 processor spec q

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
" 
" On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:24 PM, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)  
" wrote:
" 
" >
" > i'm noodling performance upgrades for my gf's machine, which currently
" > has a non-hyperthreaded 2.8/533; i don't know if the chipset supports
" > hyperthreading, or if that'd get her anything under xp pro.  ebay has
" > 3.2/800 cpus for ~$30...  the ram is already pc3200.
" 
" Make sure the MB can take an 800 MHz frontside bus, if it can't, you  
" may not even get degraded performance, but I'm not sure.

oh yes; 3.2/800 was an option, down to 2.6/400 celerons.

" I have found it more economical to upgrade MB to LGA775 MB and a low- 
" end CPU with DDR2 memory than look for slightly better 478 CPUs. For a  
" little more than $100 i bet you could get 4 Gigs of RAM, a dual core  
" CPU, and a low-end MB. $150 could buy you a nicer MB & maybe a  
" Wolfdale Celeron E3200 (which supports virtualization, like XPmode  
" under Win7, for instance, a nicely integrated WinXP VM).

yeah, but it's an hp business system and i'm concerned that nothing i
can afford would be as well engineered - though i don't know if it
pre- or post-dates the great downfall.  it's at least 4 years old,
maybe 6 or more.

fwiw belarc brands the mb as hp.  for all i know, it may just be
reading the bios, which is definitely hp branded if not authored.

" To offset the price of the new bits, you could sell off the PC3200  
" RAM, which is fetching a premium these days...

true.  4x1G ld cl2 pc3200 = $116 at least.  i wonder what 2x256M cl3
pc3200 is worth?

" Just a thought,

appreciated.
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