Inertia Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 A friend of mine just dropped off his cheapo PC for me, its an eMachines (pc worlds own brand) 210 http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?sku=474854 He wants me to make it faster for him for for around ?100. I was thinking take it to 1gb of ram (fromthe current 256mb) and upgrade to a none celeron CPU, possibly a slightly higher speed one, should be doable for that budget on ebay. I figured the memory should be pretty easy, replace the stock 256 pc2100 stick with 2 x 512 pc2100 sticks, (im not sure if the board will even take 1gb sticks ? will the board benefit from faster pc3200 memory ?) Thing is I cannot find anywhere online what cpu the motherbaord will take. I am guessing it is a socket 478 because it curently has a celeron 2.3 in it , this CPU from what i have researched online has a 400mhz fsb, so will the board take any P4 socket 478 with a 400mhz fsb ? will it also take higher FSB chips such as 533mhz or 800mhz ? even emachiens site doesnt list this thing in the support secion:(( Any help / advice / links apreciated. Thanks:)) /edit I foudn this : http://www.satech.com/memory-for-brand-nam...210-memory.html suggests the board will take 1gb sticks and suggests pc3200 , so the board will prolly utalise pc3200:)) Just need help on the cpu now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxconn287 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Every single PC3200 board I ever saw supports 4GB of RAM. The only boards that support 2GB DDR max runs at PC2100 only. Even though they list PC3200 I DOUBT THAT it runs in PC3200. I would try sticking a cheap Northwood P4 CPU in there and see if that works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inertia Posted July 14, 2006 Author Share Posted July 14, 2006 Thanks for the info, you are probably correct, b ut I think ile add a 1gb stick of pc3200 any way, the price is about the same, and itle just run it at pc2100 if thats all it can do, and when he upgrades to a better machine theres more chance the memory will be useful in future. seems the only northwood 478 400mhz I can find are 2.4ghz @ ?40 or 2.8ghz @ ?90 (rare aparently) I think ile get him a 2.4ghz P4 to replace his celeron 2.3, after all the extra L2 cache should help 512 > 128 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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