Im planning on one last upgrade for my dell 4600 since my parents wnon't let me get a new pc and I am too busy for a job this year.I have enough cash for a new processor now (socket 478 P4, 800 Mhz FSB) which is about 80 bucks. and I have one question, i hear these run very hot, and my dell dimension has some rather odd cooling to the processor, a green shield funnels air from a 120 mm fan in the back of the case to a fanless heatseink on top of the processor, is this sufficient cooling for the new processor? The main reason I'm asking is my friend had a simlar set up in his dell and he tried to put a normal heatsink/fan in place of the dell setup and it would not stay on the mb and fell off when the pc was standing up. Current stats 2.66 Ghz socket 478 northwood p4 (133 Mhz fsb which is underclocking my RAM (PC3200) 1 GB Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS (updated from FX 5200) and a 360 Watt PSU mb is a dell 4600i which should fully support the new processor MB (current) http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs...ecs.htm#1106163 processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819116175 also any guids for installing a new processor since i've never done it before would be nice
It is suffienct cooling for you. Dell's motherboards don't allow any overclocking (at least the normal ones), so youj wouldn't have to worry about the CPU overheating. Download a program like SpeedFan and tell us your current temperatures.
Ok thanks, link updated, and what excatly do you mean about needing a proper chipset? my shipset is Intel 865PE I beleive I tried speedfan, but im not getting any tempurature readings cpu-z screens of current set-up cpu- http://click2host.us/006/screen1.PNG mb- http://click2host.us/002/screen2.PNG and I think this says my chipset supports it http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/865pe/index.htm
Well if you have an intel heatsink on it that thing is a pain in the butt if its your first time taking it off w/o knowning how ( I replaced mine w/ a zalman copper heatsink =) also remember to get static off your hands (or the static might fry your chip even before you install it)I do that by rubbing my hands on the metal parts of my case. and once you just pop in the chip you need some thermal compound/grease http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835100007 and just put the heatsink back on it! :shaggy:
a 2.66GHz northwood P4 will do everything a 3.0GHz prescott P4 will do. Prescot would probably only offer about a 10% real world performance gain over the nrothwood since there is only a 13% clock speed increas, your memroy speed doesn't icnrease and prescott is somewhat slower of a gamer than northwood clock/clock. There are much better ways to put your money to good use over what you're suggesting. and FYI the dell cooling probably woudn't cut it as prescott is nicknamed presshott for a reason...
Well my friend is building a new computer, and I basically got his processor for free (same one shown in first post) It actually did increase the clock speed of my ram due to the higher fsb, I'm using hte stock dell cooling for now and seems to be working fine, even playing F.E.A.R. For some reason When i run speedfan I can't get ANY tempurature readings though.
478, if you want to toss some money at it, try the scythe mine for 35$ decent cooler for the cost rpetty quiet and a good cooler. dont' want to move the case much with ti though as it's one of the -------giant coolers newegg is out of stock http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835185023 cooler guys has it for maybe 5$ more after shipping and everything(and shipping is slwoer, atleast for me - though if you live in california, NO SALES TAX) I used them to order ym scythe infinity and they seemed decent they shipped it within one day... it just took forever for UPS(but I didn't have my CPU yet so it did not matter) http://www.coolerguys.com/840556026990.html i sugegst running memtest and/or orthos. I woudln't trust Dell brand(err hynix, lowend samsung, low end infineon rather) RAM to overclock too well
I was going to get this along time ago but since I bring my comp to my friends place I got the zalman copper heatsink which loks lkie a flower lol
Ok thanks, I'll look into that, i already got rid of the crappy stock dell ram a while ago and am now running Corsair
