mrmylanman
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Hello,
At work I have a Dimension E521 computer. It's one of the better computers we have at the company, however it is still a dog on some of the tasks I do with it (optical character recognition, dealing with large spreadsheets, and running digital enhancement on photos, etc.). None of these tasks are GPU-accelerated on the software we use, so a video card wouldn't help.
The memory got upgraded to 3GB from our IT folk, up from 1GB.
The CPU in this computer is an Athlon 64 X2 3800+, which runs at 2GHz.
The motherboard is an AM2 socket, and I remember reading some that AM2+ fits in AM2, however I wanted to verify this. I want to upgrade my CPU on this computer because I know I won't be getting a new one for quite some time (there are still a few Pentium IIIs floating around here), and make my work more efficient.
Are there any available I could use? If it was my home desktop, and custom-built I would probably already have all the information I need, however I wasn't sure if Dell placed any restrictions on it, and plain AM2 processors seem hard to find these days.
Thanks a million
At work I have a Dimension E521 computer. It's one of the better computers we have at the company, however it is still a dog on some of the tasks I do with it (optical character recognition, dealing with large spreadsheets, and running digital enhancement on photos, etc.). None of these tasks are GPU-accelerated on the software we use, so a video card wouldn't help.
The memory got upgraded to 3GB from our IT folk, up from 1GB.
The CPU in this computer is an Athlon 64 X2 3800+, which runs at 2GHz.
The motherboard is an AM2 socket, and I remember reading some that AM2+ fits in AM2, however I wanted to verify this. I want to upgrade my CPU on this computer because I know I won't be getting a new one for quite some time (there are still a few Pentium IIIs floating around here), and make my work more efficient.
Are there any available I could use? If it was my home desktop, and custom-built I would probably already have all the information I need, however I wasn't sure if Dell placed any restrictions on it, and plain AM2 processors seem hard to find these days.
Thanks a million