Cpu Upgrade?

[rjimenez00000@yahoo]

Whats the fastest or highest model cpu that can be placed on the Intel 945G Big Lake Motherboard? Its a Gateway PC currently has the Pentium D 820.

 

[lcp1109]

http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Intel2/WMEOEMD945GBIG1/WMEOEMD945GBIG1sp2.shtml

http://www.chiptec.net/index.php?catid=15&subcat=347&pagina=10&order=preco

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/779/xx/xx/103/9/criteresn_BA00001703-BV00124134.html?s=779&m=xx&t=xx&categorieid=9&cat=103&startrow=&sortBy=DESC&orderBy=Prix

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000343&IsNodeId=1&Description=socket%20775&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=20

seems to be INTEL Core 2 Quad Q9550S

Btw, I cant find the processor list for your motherboard, so I cant tell you for sure if it can work with any 775 processor.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I am pretty sure you are limited to very early LGA 775 chips. That would be Pentium 4 5xx and 6xx series and Pentium D 8xx chips and 9xx chips. You could go with a faster clock speed Pentium D but in my opinion that is a waste of money. You would be spending money on obsolete tech that was not even very good when it was new.

To specifically answer your question a Pentium D 960 is probably the fastest chip that board will support.

http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Intel2/WMEOEMD945GBIG1/WMEOEMD945GBIG1mvr24.shtml

 

[Maziar]

to lcp1109I don't think it supports Core 2 CPUs
http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/778516-can-i-change-my-cpu.html
I think the fastest CPU supported is Pentium D 960

 

[Emperus]

Time to upgrade.

You could get a E3300/G41 combo that would be twice as fast as your current setup for less than $100.

Upgrading to a dead socket..!! Not a very bright idea (even if it is less than 100$)..

 

[rjimenez00000@yahoo]

Thanks everyone. This is what I pretty much was thinking but wasn't 100% certain. I guess the best thing to do is to just de-brand the computer? I'd much rather do this than get old upgrades but I wasn't sure if my recovery discs would work on the new set up. I don't have the actual OS disk and I would hate to shell out 100$+ for win 7 right now. I'd go with Linux but I'm not that tech savvy. Any suggestions?

 

[lcp1109]

I think there are programs that can show you what serial you are using on your OS (search on google ), that is the only thing you need to do a fresh installation on a new PC. I dont think it whould be iligal for your to download a new DVD with your OS when you have a valid serial, just make sure you are not sharing while downloading.