cpu upgrade

[jacksprat16]

hi
my friend has an old comp he uses for surfing and you tube.etc
it has adequate memory and a radeon 9600 graphics card but the processor is only a pentium3 933mghz but its very slow (windows xp pro)
would I b*lls things up if i got a 1.6mgz processor of the same type (from comp spares store) and replaced the 933mghz one
any advice very welcome,apart from buy a new comp.

[VHG]

You need to check the motherboard specs and see what CPUs it supports

[ChuckFickens]

Pentium 3s didn't go upto 1.6ghz

The fastest P3 was a 1.4ghz, but that one is a later model that yours and runs at a different voltage, the fastest that runs at the same voltage as yours (1.75v) was a 1.13Ghz and to be honest the speed increase is so little you'd probably not notice the difference.

[jacksprat16]

ok thanks guys i think we'll leave it as it is cheers

[TTG]

Put 2GB ram in it and have a clear out of any big files you don't need or move them to external drive. Defrag the hard-drive and make sure Windows is up to date. Use firefox browser for surfing. Switch to classic mode in XP and turn off all the effects. Use msconfig to see what's starting up and disable if not needed. Search on net for how to use msconfig.

[deggers316]

thankyou all

[deggers316]

should have said also have an old comp i was about to "do up" as a spare for the kids to use
i hate throwing things away without giving them another go just because there outdated