I have a Dell Dimension 2300 that has a Intel Celeron in it and I want it out! I hate that thing! I have 1.70 Ghz with 384 RAM and I want to put an AMD Athlon on the motherboard. Its a 850 Mhz but I dont know how to convert Megahurtz into Gigahurtz and back. They are both onboard with chipset of 420. Help!
2006-06-21 04:01:40 · 5 answers · asked by anginfla 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
As others have said, you cannot put an AMD into a Celeron slot. More importantly, I think you may be blaming your processor for things that are not really it's fault.
Are you using XP? It's much faster than the earlier windows.
Are you using firefox? It's much faster (and safer) than Internet Explorer. I put a link to download and install firefox in the sources.
Unless you are doing gaming or complicated business stuff, I think a Celeron should be plenty powerful for you. I would suggest getting more RAM first. If that doesn't help, then backup all your stuff, download a firewall instakllation program and burn it to a cd, and then and reinstall Windows (but don't connect to the internet). If your clean installation of windows is faster, install the firewall from the CD(I recommend the free version of ZoneAlarm listed in the sources), and then connect to the internet. Do ALL the windows updates. Install Windows Defender and SpyBot Search and Destroy (you can find them both via google).
All that should keep you running fast.
2006-06-21 04:25:30 · answer #1 · answered by fishdan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You cannot put an AMD chip into an Intel Motherboard nowadays - they are completely different pin configurations. You would have to buy a new motherboard. And since Dell's use proprietary cases, you would have to buy a new case. And since you have to buy a new case and a new motherboard, you'd probably have to buy new RAM... so now, you might as well buy a new computer.
As for converting GHz into MHz and vice versa - multiple by 1000. 1.7 GHz = 1700 MHz - which means that the Celeron is much faster than the AMD 850 MHz. - Yes, the AMD is faster if the chips ran at the same MHz, but they don't.... the 850 probably operates around 1.4 GHz (equivalent to the Celeron).
You should be able to upgrade the CPU to a Pentium class chip (instead of a celeron), but NO AMD.
2006-06-21 04:06:22 · answer #2 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Changing Processor on a Motherboard?
2006-06-21 05:34:05 · answer #3 · answered by cowsformeatandmilk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amd has a different chipset than Intel you'll need a new motherboard.
2006-06-21 04:04:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no its not possible. both are diffrent manufacture.
2006-06-21 04:06:39 · answer #5 · answered by Net Oracle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋