Hi people.
I have an oldish A2 that I have been repairing,
It had a 2.6ghz celery desktop cpu that was running very very hot that I have replaced with a 1.8 p4,from a retired beast, this has definately solved the heat problem (as well as removing half an inch of dust) and I would say that performance is around the same.
The questions I have for you all are these,
1. the max cpu speed for this machine is 2.8ghz, now there are a few of these chips floating around on ebay but there are far more chips clocked @
3ghz, if I was to use one of these would the MB simply downclock the chip or would I fry the MB? also would the heat issue return?
2. Regarding RAM, the machine curretly has 512mb of DDR SDRAM, not enough in 2007, the new memory I am looking at buying is DDRII 667,
Will this make a difference or do I need to stick with DDR?
many thanks in advance.
I have an oldish A2 that I have been repairing,
It had a 2.6ghz celery desktop cpu that was running very very hot that I have replaced with a 1.8 p4,from a retired beast, this has definately solved the heat problem (as well as removing half an inch of dust) and I would say that performance is around the same.
The questions I have for you all are these,
1. the max cpu speed for this machine is 2.8ghz, now there are a few of these chips floating around on ebay but there are far more chips clocked @
3ghz, if I was to use one of these would the MB simply downclock the chip or would I fry the MB? also would the heat issue return?
2. Regarding RAM, the machine curretly has 512mb of DDR SDRAM, not enough in 2007, the new memory I am looking at buying is DDRII 667,
Will this make a difference or do I need to stick with DDR?
many thanks in advance.