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Petium 3 processor with windows xp

posted by jbhusker on Jan 05, 2008


recieved a sencond hand Dell demensions unit that has a pentium 3 processor and had windows xp installed on it. most things work but using wireless dsl it takes 5 minutes to load each page. Can I update the processor to a pentium 4 of some type with out reconfiguring the entire unit? If so how do you find what type of pentium 4 will fit and will it help?
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posted on Jan 06, 2008
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Just a bit of information. Your slow speed reguards to DSL is bull. Unless your ISP requires your system to run a min Mhz cpu. Cant really suggest how high you can up your cpu unless we know the model of the board & it wouldn't hurt to know the bios version too. Here is a small list from Fixya of Dells & Pent III. http://www.fixya.com/support/dell/motherboards/f5996
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