Upgrading intel pentium 4 HT...how much ram and windows 7??

This is my exact computer, and I would like to know if I can put 2-4gb of ram in it, and what kind of ram.
Right now it only has 1gb of ram.

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Also can I put windows 7 32x or 64x on this?

It's for my mom and it's suprisingly fast lol.


Thanks!

I do not think the P4 series with HT can do x64. Stick with x86, get 2 gigs of ram, and for malware I use free Avast and free malwarebytes, very little memory footprint.

most P4's I know of only support DDR1 and DDR1's max capacity if 1GB sticks I believe. DDR1 sticks arent exactly cheap anymore either.

Most of the Intel® Pentium® 4 processors are 32bit only. Only late in the product of Intel Pentium 4 processors in socket 775 did we release some 64Bit procssors. You would also need to check on the memory that your motherboard can support. To check on a set model of an Intel Pentium 4 processor you can go to ark.intel.com.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

quite a few of them supports rdram and sdram as well but dont think you can get more than 512 per stick. ddr ram is very expensive now and even ddr2 the price is going up

Run CPU-Z and it will tell you which processor that you are using or have. If you havent put the processor in yet you can copy the part # off the top of the processor and enter it on ark.intel.com.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

That would be this processor - has EMT64 and can address over 4GB of RAM. Go to 4GB, if your motherboard supports it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819116198

Hah same time, thanks.

How do I find my mobo?

Looks like it^ but not sure about the 533

Can someone give me a definitive conclusion, htanks!

CPU Z doesn't tel me the MOBO make, or does it?

download belarc advisor. run it then let us know your motherboard and we will search ram for you.

I'm using as I type a northwood p4 with 3GB CAS 2 DDR 400 RAM. I've been using this thing for the past 8 years. Been running Win7 32bit for over a year now. Works like a charm, you just need to be careful to keep the OS running clean, no unneccessary background services/programs.

My P4 is socket 478, so in order to upgrade the CPU, I would have had to upgrade the more: mobo, IDE hard drives, AGP video card, DDR memory all become obsolete after socket 478. This is the reason i still use this old CPU.

You on the other hand are already on socket 775. You have no excuses, you can keep all your other parts and upgrade to a Core 2 duo/quad.

In CPU-Z it reads:

Model: OJC474

Chipset: i915P/i915G

LPCIO: SMSC


Can someone link me to the cheapest RAM I can get? I'll do 4gb if possible.

2 gigs is much better than 1! It's not for my anyways, I need 32gigs of ram on my system for intense workloads

can anyone confirm this is correct?

for normal use, you wont really notice the difference anyway unless the speed/latency difference is massive

Have you even run a test on it, load it with win7 and then go to facebook and see how it handles. When I tested my old system I came to the conclusion that it was better off in the scrap bin than giving to someone that would be constantly complaining how slow it was. And I mean its really really slow even with 2Gb.

edit - I really would hate to see you throw $100 bucks into something that old when for not much more you could get somethig actually usable and just upgrade the motherboard,cpu, &ram: $50 Mobo+ $50 CPU+ $15 2gb ram (reuse your case & drives)

i think what popatim meant was that there wasnt really any point in upgrading that build anymore as if you can get your hands on a cheap conroe/penryn build it will probably be faster and you will save that amount of money in your electric bill

What exactly is the Intel Enthusiast Team tasked with? If all you do is post answers to questions on message boards and build enthusiast machines, then I want your Job!!!!!