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Question

My motherboard in my processor died after three years of use. (1.80ghz. Intel Pentium 4, 8kb primary cache 256kb secondary memory cache. Only had 256MB memory in slot A

I took my pc to an authorized Samsung/Microsoft shop and requested update techology. Motherboard Pentium 4 and 512MB memory.

When I picked up my pc and ran Belarc Advisor to compare all the parts, I saw that I had 256MB memory slot 1 and 256MB memory slot 2 -- Was shocked to see that I had 800Mhz. IDTPentium II

(All other hardware matched upon return).

Went back to the shop the Government shut the shop down.

Now no matter what I do, I am using 100% of my CPU. I don´t have any trojans or spyware.

Please can some one help me to understand, Pentium II, 800mhz, that I have now against what I had that died Pentium 4 1.80Ghz. Is this the power that makes you pc and software run?. An I lack the power to even install my updates for my antivirus. Will Pentium 4 help.

Thanks,

Minddoctor, France

Answer 1

The Pentium II is unsuitable for Windows XP.

I advise you to get a new computer with a dual core processor.
I suspect by the time you are done you will have spent more than if you had bought a new computer.

Do not waste your money on a Pentium 4 unless you get it for very little money. If you had a Pentium 4 1.8+Ghz. 256MB+, it would run Microsoft XP. It would not be fast but it would run most (non game) applications. It would not be suitable for Vista If Vista could even run, it would run extremely poorly.

Answer 2

pentium 2, 800 mhz is very very low, for the computing needs in our days you need a much better processor to cope with the documents or even new software. So you have to go buy a new processor because the processor is the heart of the computer . Cheerz hope i helped.