Intel P4 upgrade question

[sirlemonhead]

My Dad has an old Gateway Pentium 4 machine. It has a 1.3ghz cpu and runs on Rambus PC800-45 memory, so I believe this means that the system runs with a 400mhz FSB?

I don't know anything else about the motherboard or cpu he has...is there any guess you could make as to what socket cpu it uses and what the maximum speed cpu it would take if I was to try upgrade?

 

[Will_3rd]

Download CPU-Z it should give you some idea of the spec

 

[jbloggs]

sirlemonhead:

Also have a look Here

 

[Corasik]

Socket 423, Willimotte, without a doubt (Well I am 99.99% certain).

There are no cost effective upgrades for this system, you'll need to replace PSU/Ram/Mobo/Processor and all the new stuff you'll likely end up with PCI Express so throw in a new Graphics card too. Plus the hard drive is probably very slow compared to a modern high density perpendicual drive like the Seagate 7200.10.

If you were 'very' lucky you might find a 2Ghz Willimotte on an online auction, but even then you would have to be carefull not to get the later socket 478 version.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Willamette = crap. It's true. It'd be far more cost effective to get a new cheap rig than putting a dime into a Willamette. The RAM alone will cost a small fortune.