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upgrading my CPU

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swrobbie

Discussion Starter · Jan 13, 2005

I have a Compaq Presario 5838 desktop (purchased new in 1998). It came with a AMD Athlon K7 500MHz processor. I would like to upgrade the CPU to make it faster. I don't want to buy a new system. I spoke with HP and the mother board will only handle up to 1GHz speed. Would it be best to change the CPU to the AMD 1GHz "Thunderbird" or replace the mother board and faster CPU? I am currently running Win98 but will upgrade to XP in the near future.

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dustyjay

· #9 · Nov 7, 2005

Another problem with a compaq that age is the power supply will not work on a newer ATX board period. THey have a proprietary power supply that has a different power plug than an atx power supply even though they indeed call thier motherboard an ATX motherboard it is not standard atx. So that case/power supply would be worthless with a new Mobo.

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