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rogersac
12-11-2003, 10:41 PM
I am wanting to upgrade a Celeron 700MHz CPU to something a little faster and I am not sure which CPUs will work with my motherboard. I am unsure of what things matter when it comes to upgrading CPUs.
Does anyone know of a good place to go for a quick tutorial?

In case you are wondering, my current CPU is a...
Intel Celeron 700MHz
Socket 370 FC-PGA

My motherboard is a...
Model : Dell OptPlex GX100
Chipset : Intel i810

I am wanting to purchase the following CPU...
Intel Celeron 1.1GHz
FC-PGA2 Package for Socket 370 motherboards w/ Tualatin support

Budfred
12-11-2003, 10:51 PM
Welcome to http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/pcgubb.gif

Dell's tend not to be friendly toward upgrades. They are very proprietary and tend to cripple their motherboards so that you can't do much customizing. The best way to find out what it might be able to handle is probably to check your model on their website and if it doesn't say, to ask them in tech support by email... I suspect you will find you can't do what you want to do unless you build a whole new system....

mjc
12-12-2003, 01:28 AM
I can tell you right now.......no it won't.

The i810 chipset is not going to hadle the over 1 Gig CPUs...