Processor To Replace A Pentium III

[walterbieber]

The School Threw Out Some Old DELL OptiPlex GX150s. I Want To Upgrade One Of Them With A New Processor. The School Upgraded Thier Working Ones With Pentium 4s. But The Motherboard Is A Socket 370 And I Don't Know What To Use Help, Please.

[Zephik]

You might have to look into a new motherboard if you want to upgrade the processor. Socket 370 only goes up to Pentium 3, which you would probably be hard pressed to find. It would more than likely be cheaper to just buy a new motherboard along with a new processor (should probably get new ram too), rather than hunt down a "faster" socket 370 Pentium 3 processor.

You might as well just build a new computer from scratch to be honest and just keep that one as it is, or sell it and put that money towards a new computer. But if you keep it, you could probably use it as a server or something.

Here is an ultra budget dual-core PC wish list that I put together for people wanting a major upgrade without spending too much money. Its a pretty kick-ass setup if I do say so myself, for such a low price anyways. Its priced at $390.92 without shipping costs. If you subtract the speakers from the build, its even cheaper! (it could be even cheaper if you use the hard drive and cd-rom drive from your computer instead of the ones I listed)

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/M...spx?ID=9955146

You can also go to Dell.com and browse their computers. Their Inspiron series are pretty decent and start out at $279.99! They aren't anywhere as good as my wish list, but if you are looking for a new pc while spending as little as possible, then there you go.

[nevermind1534]

The School Threw Out Some Old DELL OptiPlex GX150s. I Want To Upgrade One Of Them With A New Processor. The School Upgraded Thier Working Ones With Pentium 4s. But The Motherboard Is A Socket 370 And I Don't Know What To Use Help, Please.

Oh, yes. I have three of those with P3s. The best that you can get in those socket 370 ones is a P3. Dell has been known to use the same model numbers, even with different hardware inside. You could look on ebay for some 1GHz P3s.

[walterbieber]

Oh, yes. I have three of those with P3s. The best that you can get in those socket 370 ones is a P3. Dell has been known to use the same model numbers, even with different hardware inside. You could look on ebay for some 1GHz P3s.

Yeah But What I Was Tring To Find Out Was What Chip They Used To Upgrade. If It Cost Less Than Some Others I Would Go For That. But I Don't Know How They Pennium 4 On The 370s Socket. Unless They Got New Motherboards Which I Doubt Very Much

[nevermind1534]

Pentium 4 won't go into a socket 370. My guess would be that they got more computers that came from the factory with Pentium 4s. There are only socket 423, 478, and 775 Pentium 4s.

[ShockTheBox]

ya this is a rather silly bit.. the pentium 3 tualatin core went up to 1.4 ghz then stopped the pentium 3 socket fabrication. anything after that is pentium 4 and on a totally different socket design then the p3.. ps it would be more worth your time to buy a 1.7 ghz p4 from any refurbisher for 49-89 bucks then spend time with a pentium 3

[FuzzyPlushroom]

ps it would be more worth your time to buy a 1.7 ghz p4 from any refurbisher for 49-89 bucks then spend time with a pentium 3

...which isn't entirely correct, unless you need SSE2 or have a faster Pentium 4 around. The 1.4 Tualatins were equivalent to a 1.7 P4, give or take, for applications that aren't dependent on SSE2, so if the board in your Dell supports the Tualatin core (lower voltage, a couple new features) and you can find one cheaply (with 512k of L2 cache, preferably) it may be a good investment. Here's one for $15 and shipping, a new-old-stock 1.4 for $30 shipped within the US... it comes down to how much money you want to put into the machine. If, and this is a big "if", that CPU is supported, it's the best you can do with that socket.

If you could open one of the cases up and show us a photograph of the inside (as clear as possible), or get the model number or chipset of the motherboard, one of us could tell you whether or not this upgrade is possible.

[nevermind1534]

Here's a better buy. $6.99 shipped. I have some P3 GX150s, and they don't take tualatin CPUs. If that is the case, you will also need a socket adaptor. This is the best deal that I could find. It includes the CPU and adaptor, but, sadly, it has to ship from Korea.

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Here's a better buy. $6.99 shipped. I have some P3 GX150s, and they don't take tualatin CPUs. If that is the case, you will also need a socket adaptor. This is the best deal that I could find. It includes the CPU and adaptor, but, sadly, it has to ship from Korea.

Very nice. I don't do the eBay thing, so I didn't catch those. Thanks for the Dell info, too. +rep

[progbuddy]

I would keep the P3's and just... Ya know... Cluster them.