Recent content by JP-NY

So I installed the Pentium D yesterday and had no problem booting into Windows. The Pentium D is definitely significantly faster. Windows did completely freeze once while running Performance Test . After a hard restart I was presented with a BIOS message "incompatible processor detected press F1...

just ordered one. Im I correct in assuming that if it fits the worst that will happen is that it wont POST or boot, and I can put back the old CPU if needed (it wont harm the motherboard)

thanks! for a couple of bucks how can I not give it a try. Are those 2 links the exact same processor? I assume I can keep the same PS (305w), RAM and everything else and just slap some thermal grease on it and pop it in.

win xp pro 32 4gb (3.25 usable) so having it turned is "faster' then disable?

Have a very old Intel Pentium 4 3GZ (family F, Model 4, Stepping 3) - Dell Dimension 5100 Im trying to squeeze out as much "performance" as possible. Will I get better performance with SpeedStep disabled in the BIOS or enabled? Im seeing conflicting answers online. ie. will disabling it let...

Long story, very short: Probably moving cross country within the next year and wont be taking computer. Will probably be working off a tablet at that point. I just need to get computer up and running for a few months and hoped to use this opportunity to get it working a bit better. Also dont...

Thanks everyone for your posts. Still want to keep this old clunker going for a bit. Given the limited specs of the computer, the fact that I am running only at 1024x768 32bit, and dont play games do you think I will see any benefit (even slight) with MSI GT 710 2GD5H-LP over the ZOTAC GeForce...

CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz Number of CPUs: 1 Cores per CPU: 1 Hyperthreading: Enabled Motherboard: 0J8885 Memory: 4GB Crucial Technology DDR2 SDRAM

I have a really old WinXP box which is used for office work (word processing, Quicken, Web browsing, no gaming). The graphics card just blew up (Nvidia GEforce 7300 LE 256MB) and I need to replace it. I have several old PCI-E cards laying around and was trying to determine which would be the...