I have an older HP machine with an air-cooled E6550 CPU running at 2.33GHz, which I use mostly for word processing, spreadsheets, email, and occasional viewing Youtube, etc.. Would replacing this with an E6850 provide any noticable improvement? Would it be worth the $15 the E6850 will cost me?
Part 2: actually doing this: (Lately, I've just replaced the whole machine when needed. The last time I actually upgraded a CPU was replacing a Z-80 with a NEC V20 -- that was a while ago!) So questions:
2.1) I can just pull the E6550 and replace it with the E6850, right?
2.2) Seems like the main difference between those 2 chips is that the E6850 has a higher clock speed. So what do I have to do to up the machine to that clock speed? Will increasing the clock speed affect anything else? My memory is 8Gb of DDR2 PC2-6400 -- will that still work OK?
Anything else I need to consider?
Part 2: actually doing this: (Lately, I've just replaced the whole machine when needed. The last time I actually upgraded a CPU was replacing a Z-80 with a NEC V20 -- that was a while ago!) So questions:
2.1) I can just pull the E6550 and replace it with the E6850, right?
2.2) Seems like the main difference between those 2 chips is that the E6850 has a higher clock speed. So what do I have to do to up the machine to that clock speed? Will increasing the clock speed affect anything else? My memory is 8Gb of DDR2 PC2-6400 -- will that still work OK?
Anything else I need to consider?
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