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Upgrade for Celeron Northwood socket 478

  • 02-03-2010 6:32pm
    #1
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭


    Im looking for something that would be an upgrade to this on the same socket, for an Office Machine. We cant work easily with the PC but neither can we throw down for a completely new machine. It only needs a little more performance and speed to remain usable into the next year or two.

    I've upgraded a Newer machine already today: a P4 socket 520 Prescott; from 512MB to 2.5gb of Ram - obviously, it was a phenominal improvement in performance and I dont expect this machine will need more adjusting until 2011.

    The Celeron Machine on the other hand already has a GB of RAM and im not convinced its problem is the Memory but the Processor itself, so getting more out of it would require an upgrade unless im mistaken. Id say it has a lot more to do with the 100mhz operable bus speed on a 400mhz board.


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  • #2
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    What's the model/speed of the current CPU, and what speed/type of RAM? How many empty DIMM sockets are there to utilize??

    The early Celerons could be worthy of a cheap upgrade but the later ones were pretty decent and you might have difficulty getting a decent CPU upgrade over them cheaply. Nowadays the 512MB RAM could easily be the main bottleneck.

    And while a FSB400 mobo is no fun, you're not really going to be able to do much about that short of buying a newer second-hand machine :o


  • #3
    Overheal
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    Solitaire wrote: »
    What's the model/speed of the current CPU, and what speed/type of RAM? How many empty DIMM sockets are there to utilize??

    The early Celerons could be worthy of a cheap upgrade but the later ones were pretty decent and you might have difficulty getting a decent CPU upgrade over them cheaply. Nowadays the 512MB RAM could easily be the main bottleneck.

    And while a FSB400 mobo is no fun, you're not really going to be able to do much about that short of buying a newer second-hand machine :o
    Ive crossed some wires in my post: It was a 2nd machine that has a P4 and had 512mb ram - now up to 2.5gb; it can run WoW in the background along with all my work stuff. 3 hours ago I had to let the computer sit for 3 minutes to tab between 2 spreadsheets :eek::D

    The Machine that Still needs a Jolt has a Celeron Northwood 478; Rated Bus 400mhz, Stock 100mhz; 2.7ghz (27x); 128kb L2.
    The RAM in that machine is 1gb of DDR PC3200 (200mhz)


  • #4
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Oh poo. Must be the FSB; the lack of cache wouldn't cause that much bottlenecking! Not much to suggest except try to upgrade the CPU to a P4 and/or get a S478 mobo with a 533MHz FSB if possible!


  • #5
    Overheal
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    Yeah but as soon as you start discussing new boards you slam into the OEM issue. At which point it becomes a matter of just buying a new machine.


  • #6
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Exactly. So there's an uncomfortable hard limit (aside from cost efficiency!) on what can be done to this machine.

    You could boost the memory again (if that mobo can even address more than 1GB!) but given the price of RAM (old or new) nowadays it might end up cheaper to hunt down a fast S478 P4 second-hand on eBay or the like.


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