Celeron into AMD Athlon switch?

dark_killerbam

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I have a question, since i forgot the answer.
My friend has a Intel Celeron processor, but he wants to put a AMD athlon in his motherboard instead, or a P4, is this possible?

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slvr_phoenix

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Yes.

With a judicious use of silly-putty or play-dough both a P4 and an Athlon can be fitted onto any mobo.

Of course if you want them to actually do something other than sit there and look pretty, well that's a whole different kettle of fish-sticks.

If you want the processor to actually work, than an Athlon is way out and a P4 is only possible <i>if</i> it was a P4 Celeron to begin with, which it probably wasn't. But who knows.

If you could tell us the actual motherboard involved it would make a huge difference to the quality of information. Even just the socket type would be ten times more useful than the extremely limited information that you've given.

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dark_killerbam

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Erm, He has a Dell Dimension 2350, and i don't know the motherboard unfortunately :(. i hope you know stuff about Dell

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Syndil

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One quick Google search for "Dell dimension 2350" and voila:

The following specifications detail the range of options with the Dimension 2350 series.

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Intel® Pentium® 4 processors at 2.2 or 2.4 GHz with 512 KB L2 cache

Intel® Celeron® processor at 2.0 or 2.2 GHz with 128 KB L2 cache

Intel 845GL chipset
Taken from <A HREF="http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/products/model_dimen_3_dimen_2350.htm#tabtop" target="_new">http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/products/model_dimen_3_dimen_2350.htm#tabtop</A>

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slvr_phoenix

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Thank you for that information. :)

According to Dell, the Dimension 2350 uses an i845GL chipset. It's a 400MHz FSB motherboard and comes with PC2100 (DDR266) RAM.

The fastest processor that you can upgrade to with that system is a Pentium4 2.5GHz NorthwoodA with a 400MHz Front-Side-Bus. (Not to be confused with the 2.53GHz Pentium4 NorthwoodB with a 533MHz FSB, which this motherboard will <i>not</i> support.)

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FYI: there is now a P4 2.6A NW 400FSB. I know someone who bought one from googlegear.com and installed it in his Dell 8200.

...patiently waiting for 10Ghz processors and immersible virtual reality.
 

eden

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My guess is that it would work, just like a car has extensions to be compatible to attach a space shuttle mode to it... :smile:

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