Help?!??

[dweezy88]

I seriously need to upgrade my computer and I need some help. Awhile back, 4 yrs ago or so, my mom bought a Compaq Presario Desktop 7360 and over the years, I've been upgrading various components such as graphic card, memory, cd-drives. But I think I should upgrade the 433mhz cpu.I'm wondering, looking at the compaq presario desktop 7360 specs, what cpu can i upgrade to? Which ones would work? I really need help! Thanks.

 

[endyen]

The best you could do is upgrade from a 4 year old to a 3 year old. It is time to upgrade mobo, chip and ram.

 

[Crashman]

I Garuntee that board will support the older PPGA Celeron 533. Not certain about the newer FC-PGA 533-766 though. Also not certain about bus speed support.

What chipset does it use?

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[dweezy88]

Chipset? I'm not too sure where to findthat information out.

 

[P4Man]

I think you can forget about upgrading it. You *might* be able to squeeze in something that is a couple of percent faster, but considering the effort, price and the low performance you'll still end up with, I think its time for a new machine. If you don't have the budget for a really new computer, consider buying a second hand AXP or something.

You might be able to recover a few things, like harddisk, videocard or optical drives if they are worth it though.

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[Crashman]

If your system is operational with windows loaded, you can find out what chipset you're using in device manager, it should have a couple system devices labled with the part 82440LX, 82440BX, 82810, or 82815...or some variation of those numbers, containing the part BX, LX 810, or 815.

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[dweezy88]

I could not find those numbers but I know that the processor it's currently running on is an AMD K6-2 500mhz if that helps at all.

 

[Crashman]

I thought you said a 433MHz CPU? Well, your K6-2 is probably on an MVP or MVP3 chipset. And you can't get a Socket 7 CPU faster than 550MHz.

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[dweezy88]

Well ,i thought it was a 433mhz by looking at the specs on some place where i found the compaq information. Thanks anyways, probably time to buy/make a new computer then.

 

[Crashman]

I've seen Compaq use the same model number for PC's with different board/processors before.

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