Need help on; Upgrading from a Celeron Processor to a P4 Processor

  • Thread starter Thread starter William Foote
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Hello

First line of Business make sure that your mother will support
the new processor, read your mother baord manual for that info
or go out on the internet and look at P4 mother baords, research
for what you want.

Do a search on google for P4 mother baords.

Alvin
 
Download the Bel Arc Advisor from www.belarc.com to
determine the details about your system. Many Celeron CPUs
use the same socket as the P4. Once you know the maker and
model of your motherboard, you can search the motherboard
manufacturer's website for specs on supported CPUs.

If your Celeron presently is slower than 1.7 GHz, you will
probably need to replace the following parts to upgrade the
CPU from a Celeron to a P4...
motherboard
CPU
power supply needs to be P4 rated with a special 4 wire
power connector in addition to the standard power connector.

You'll need to then reinstall Windows so the proper new
drivers are loaded.

At some point, you may find it cheaper to buy a new computer
and keep or sell the old.


| What is required to upgrade to a Pentium 4 processor?
 
This is probably not as simple an answer as you think it
is.
First of all, you have to know what processors your
motherboard supports, it may not support a P4, & it may.
Usually, motherboards are fairly limited as to how much
you can upgrade, unless it's quite new.
If it does support a P4, then you would have to buy the
new processor along with a new heatsink/fan because I
doubt a celeron heatsink would be adequate for a P4.
Another thing to consider is your power supply. Is it
one of those 250 or 300 watt things they put in low end
HP's, Dells, or Comaq's?? If so, you're probably better
off upgrading to a 400watt. (Though a 300watt might carry
the system for a while, it most likely will lead to
problems down the road, like hardware failure)
Next, the case. Is there adequate ventilation to support
a hotter running processor??? Who knows?
If all of the above is Kosher, then you remove the old
processor & heatsink, put in the new (be sure to use
thermal paste between the processor & heatsink)& make sure
the fan is plugged into the motherboard. Then leave the
cover off your case & boot-up, making sure the heatsink
fan is turning, if not power off immediately as you can
burn out the new processor in a matter of seconds.
Next, you either have to boot into bios, or change a
jumper on the motherboard to support the new processor
speed (hopefully you have the motherboard manual that
shows the proper settings.
If everything is ok, then boot into Windows & see what
happens....
 
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