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January 6, 2014 9:51:31 AM

Hello, I need help upgrading my friends PC. His computer is pretty old: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/12132708-...

and he doesn't want to buy a new computer so he wants to slightly upgrade his CPU for the game crossfire. According to some people they say that the game runs more on CPU than GPU. His current CPU is http://ark.intel.com/products/33925/Intel-Pentium-Proce... and it is 2.2Ghz.

After some googling I found this processor on ebay:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Intel-Pentium-4-Socket-478-P4-3-...

which is 3.4Ghz

So I am wondering if this will fit, and will he see a significant difference.

Thanks!

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January 6, 2014 9:58:07 AM

Meh... it will give a slight improvement, the big issue is the rest of the system architecture. 800MHz bus... I have a "Gaming" system that was built "in the day" and it was OK when new... I would not run anything but XP or possibly win7 64bit, since the CPU will support 64bit. Max ram is likely only 8GB which should be OK... Maybe a small SSD or SSD accelerator (like SanDisk has) would help as well...

Truly not a big difference and not real strong for current games.
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January 6, 2014 10:08:17 AM

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=ca&dlc=e...
Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:
•Intel Core 2 Quad (Y) Q9xxxx
•Intel Core 2 Duo (W) E8xxx
•Intel Core 2 Quad (K) up to Q6600
•Core 2 Duo E6x00 (C) up to E6700
•Core 2 Duo E4x00 (C) up to E4400
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January 6, 2014 10:13:07 AM

i would just chuck it and get this its only 365 including os just save the optical drive and wipe the hardrive and reuse it has a much beter graphics and processor http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2wF8C
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January 6, 2014 10:19:21 AM

Hi unfortunately he doesn't want to spend like $100 on an SSD, or completely build a new PC. He just wants to slightly upgrade his pc for more FPS.
I found another CPU: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Pentium-D-945-3-4-GHz-4MB...

That is also 3.4Ghz will this improve?

Thank you whitecat for all of those choices!
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