Upgrade a Dell Dimension 3100

[solat]

Hi,

I want to upgrade an old pc of mine for use as part of a home media centre. Its current specs are:

Motherboard:
CPU Type Celeron, 3066 MHz (5.75 x 533)
Motherboard Name Dell Inc. Dell DV051
Motherboard Chipset Intel Grantsdale-G i915G/GL/GV
System Memory 502 MB
BIOS Type Phoenix (04/04/06)

Soundcard: Creative SB X-Fi

I'll be running XP Pro (or maybe Vista HP if it runs smoothly) and streaming to an XBox.

I don't want to spend too much money and I saw this kit online



AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz Socket AM2 1MB, BOXED m/koeler
MSI K9N6PGM2-V, nForce430+GeForce 6100, Socket-AM2+, m-ATX, DDR2, LAN, PCI-Ex16
Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 2048MB Kit w/two matched Value Select 1024MB

The kit including delivery is €138 ($183 USD).

My question is, can I fit this kit without changing my motherboard, and if not, would I be better off getting an Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor such as

Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2,5GHz, (€79 E, $104 USD)

and add the graphics card and memory separately.

I really want to keep cost to a minimum, and make the upgrade to a dual-core as hassle free as possible.

Any suggestions and help would be much appreciated.


Cheers!

 

[B00kWyrm]

Not 100% sure here, (Check your documentation...)
but I think you will find that your MB will support either
your Celeron D (current configuration) OR
Pentium 4 with HyperThreading.

Hopefully someone else will weigh in here shortly.