Upgrading Intel Processor help.

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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I use two computers. One at home is and Athlon x2 4200+ 2 gig ram. My work computer is a Celeron 2600 and also 2 gig ram.

The Athlon seems a lot faster over the Celeron.

The Intel board is an ECS P4M800pro 478 socket. According to the website I can use Pentium 4/Celeron/Northwood/Prescott 478-pin CPUs

Would I see a big difference upgrading from the current Celeron 2.6 to a Pentium 4 of a similar speed.

I don’t want to spend too much to upgrade if I won’t see much difference.

Also, I installed 2 one gig sticks of Corsair ddr2 ram in this computer but Windows only sees 1 gig. Otherwise it runs fine.

The ram is is ddr2 800 but is clocked down to 566 by the motherboard.

Thanks for any information.

Joe

PS I am looking at this processor to replace the celeron.

Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz 800MHz 1MB Cache Prescott 478 Pin 800Mhz FSB OEM

Wondering if I will see a difference between these processors.

Thanks

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This board has a max ddr2 memory speed of 533. I installed the ddr2 800 memory and works fine except the bios and Win XP pro only sees 1 gig of it.

Must be clocking it down.

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Hi, the celeron 2.6ghz and Pentium 4 2.8ghz are both single core CPU’s so you wouldn’t see any difference at all because its only a 200mhz speed difference between them. If one was a single core cpu and the other was a dual core cpu then you would notice the difference. As for the RAM is it one module at 2gb? or is it two modules 1gb each?

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It is 2, 1gig modules.

Someone said it may be because they are double sided. I have no idea what that would have to do with it.

Thanks for the assistance.

Joe

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Hi, have you got the RAM set in dual channel configuration for ddr2 on your motherboard? because your board supports both ddr and ddr2 so make sure its in ddr2 dual channel config on your board NOT one moudle in ddr dimm and another in ddr2 dimm. the motherboard will automatically clock it down to the highest memory frequency it can handle which in your case is 533mhz, It should pick up both modules because your board handles upto 2gb of ddr2. it could also be one of your modules is faulty what you can do is try one module at a time and then you should know if you have a faulty module of ram.