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Deskpro upgrade options
Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a
500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset. Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the manuals, but can't decide whether the right answer is 256 or 512MB memory. He has fitted a 64 MB PCI graphics card to replace the onboard graphics on the system. It's running Win XP professional. His main intention is to run games on it, but I'm wondering about the limitations. Any help gratefully received. Regards John |
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The Intel 810e chipset is limited to 512MB max of memory. The system can handle
a pair of 256MB LOW DENSITY PC100 or PC133 non-parity SDRAM DIMMs. Is this a system with a Slot 1 processor or a Socket 370 processor? DeskPro EP systems were made with both. If the former, the fastest CPU is a 600MHz Pentium III operating at 2.0v and 100MHz front-side bus. Careful here, because Intel made quite a few different 600MHz Slot 1 Pentium IIIs. Frankly, 500MHz to 600MHz is hardly worth the effort and cost. If the processor is a Socket 370, I think that the fastest supported CPU would be 850MHz, which will provide a respectable bump in performance... Ben Myers On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:23:57 +0100, "John Orrett" wrote: Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a 500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset. Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the manuals, but can't decide whether the right answer is 256 or 512MB memory. He has fitted a 64 MB PCI graphics card to replace the onboard graphics on the system. It's running Win XP professional. His main intention is to run games on it, but I'm wondering about the limitations. Any help gratefully received. Regards John |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:23:57 +0100, John Orrett
wrote: Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a 500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset. Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the manuals, but can't decide whether the right answer is 256 or 512MB memory. He has fitted a 64 MB PCI graphics card to replace the onboard graphics on the system. It's running Win XP professional. His main intention is to run games on it, but I'm wondering about the limitations. Any help gratefully received. Regards John If you install a Powerleap CPU, you can get 1,4GHz. -- JP Loken Using Opera |
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Game play will be really slowed by the PCI graphics, especially games like
Half-Life, Unreal Tournament and Doom III. If games like that are the ones he wants to run, that PC isn't the one to do it, regardless of how fast a processor or how much RAM. HH "JP Loken" wrote in message newspscoed9fhuii9sp@jpl... On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:23:57 +0100, John Orrett wrote: Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a 500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset. Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the manuals, but can't decide whether the right answer is 256 or 512MB memory. He has fitted a 64 MB PCI graphics card to replace the onboard graphics on the system. It's running Win XP professional. His main intention is to run games on it, but I'm wondering about the limitations. Any help gratefully received. Regards John If you install a Powerleap CPU, you can get 1,4GHz. -- JP Loken Using Opera |
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I agree.
I am playing now and then on my own, pretty similar PC(Presario 5686) that I've upgraded in much the same way(1GHz CPU and 64MB 2xAGP). But I don't buy the hottest games anymore. -- JP Loken Using Opera On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:04:21 -0400, HH wrote: Game play will be really slowed by the PCI graphics, especially games like Half-Life, Unreal Tournament and Doom III. If games like that are the ones he wants to run, that PC isn't the one to do it, regardless of how fast a processor or how much RAM. HH "JP Loken" wrote in message newspscoed9fhuii9sp@jpl... On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:23:57 +0100, John Orrett wrote: Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a 500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset. Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the manuals, but can't decide whether the right answer is 256 or 512MB memory. He has fitted a 64 MB PCI graphics card to replace the onboard graphics on the system. It's running Win XP professional. His main intention is to run games on it, but I'm wondering about the limitations. Any help gratefully received. Regards John If you install a Powerleap CPU, you can get 1,4GHz. -- JP Loken Using Opera |
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Big difference between a 2X AGP video card and a PCI video card.
HH "JP Loken" wrote in message newspscqjk4mbuii9sp@jpl... I agree. I am playing now and then on my own, pretty similar PC(Presario 5686) that I've upgraded in much the same way(1GHz CPU and 64MB 2xAGP). But I don't buy the hottest games anymore. -- JP Loken Using Opera On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:04:21 -0400, HH wrote: Game play will be really slowed by the PCI graphics, especially games like Half-Life, Unreal Tournament and Doom III. If games like that are the ones he wants to run, that PC isn't the one to do it, regardless of how fast a processor or how much RAM. HH "JP Loken" wrote in message newspscoed9fhuii9sp@jpl... On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:23:57 +0100, John Orrett wrote: Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a 500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset. Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the manuals, but can't decide whether the right answer is 256 or 512MB memory. He has fitted a 64 MB PCI graphics card to replace the onboard graphics on the system. It's running Win XP professional. His main intention is to run games on it, but I'm wondering about the limitations. Any help gratefully received. Regards John If you install a Powerleap CPU, you can get 1,4GHz. -- JP Loken Using Opera |
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Thanks for the feedback guys - time for him to buy a new PC for his games
:-) Cheers John JP Loken wrote: I agree. I am playing now and then on my own, pretty similar PC(Presario 5686) that I've upgraded in much the same way(1GHz CPU and 64MB 2xAGP). But I don't buy the hottest games anymore. Game play will be really slowed by the PCI graphics, especially games like Half-Life, Unreal Tournament and Doom III. If games like that are the ones he wants to run, that PC isn't the one to do it, regardless of how fast a processor or how much RAM. HH "JP Loken" wrote in message newspscoed9fhuii9sp@jpl... On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:23:57 +0100, John Orrett wrote: Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a 500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset. Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the manuals, but can't decide whether the right answer is 256 or 512MB memory. He has fitted a 64 MB PCI graphics card to replace the onboard graphics on the system. It's running Win XP professional. His main intention is to run games on it, but I'm wondering about the limitations. Any help gratefully received. Regards John If you install a Powerleap CPU, you can get 1,4GHz. -- JP Loken Using Opera |
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