Solve : Can a Del GX 520 upgrade to Pentium D??

1.	Solve : Can a Del GX 520 upgrade to Pentium D??
Answer» This is not really a software issue. It is a hardware question. about a year ago I bought a refurbished Optiplex GX 520 fro a eBay vendor. Now the wartrtenty is up and I still have issues with the video,. The PC will crash while watching Netflix. This Dell SSF PC came with Windows 7 64 bit installed. The vendor did that, not Dell. This Dell machine was originally sold with Windows XP and has the old COA on it. Everest Home says I have a Presler with two cores. My research indicates the original CPU must have been a Prescott. But the Pentium D it now has is a Presler Pentium D. (Why does the spell CHECK not like Presler? A search on Prescott Pentium D shows there was no such a thing. So, I am wondering. Was that the problem? The refurbish company used a new CPU in an older board? Can I salvage this PC? That would be determined by what MBoard it is... Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen.Sorry, Geek, you don't know how to search for CPU's. http://www.cpu-world.com/index.html Prescott is a Celeron-D Pressler is a Pentium-D D's are 1st generation dual core, most, if not all are 64-bit & use Socket 775. Quote from: patio on NOVEMBER 24, 2013, 03:12:12 PM That would be determined by what MBoard it is... Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen. I think the mobo was made before 1007. The BIOS says 2006, but I think the vendor upgraded the BIOS. The motherboard bight be from 2005. I can not find a clear indication of which version it is. Everest reports it as a GC520 motherboard. The original CPU, a single core Prescott CPU, is now about 2 or 4 dollars on eBay. So that would be one way to get it to work. But I just now ordered a couple of cheap Pentium D CPUs with lower clock rate, 2.8 rather than 3.4 that it now has. Maybe I shall have to dump it. (Cue in the William Tell Overture.. tothe dump tothe dump tothe dump dump dump.) But I hate to throw the thing into the dump. Here in California you have to take electronic trash to a special place to dispose. Actually, I could by a used GX620 motherboard on eBay. If it's a Dell, it's got a Service Tag. Look it up on Dell's support site. http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19 Thanks, Computer_Commando From the link uou gave I found: Quote Celeron Dual-Core desktop family replaced single-core Celeron 400 series microprocessors, that were released in the middle of 2007. First dual-core Celerons were based on Allendale core, which, besides the SECOND core, had practically the same features as single-core Celeron 400 series CPUs That is a key bit of information. The motherboard was made before 2007, so was never sold with a dual-core Cleon. Yet the Celeron was listed by somebody on the Dell forum as a possible replacement that would give me 64 bit. So maybe I should have tried a Celeron instead. EDIT: I did the Dell site with the tag. No recommendations from Dell. But the social forum had this question posted sometime ago and said the fast Pentium D will crash the system. Too fast for the 945 chip set. In a few days I will see if the2.8 GHz Pentium Ds In ordered will work. It will show an inventory sheet of the "as shipped" . POST the Service Tag, I'll get it.

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This is not really a software issue. It is a hardware question.
about a year ago I bought a refurbished Optiplex GX 520 fro a eBay vendor. Now the wartrtenty is up and I still have issues with the video,. The PC will crash while watching Netflix. This Dell SSF PC came with Windows 7 64 bit installed. The vendor did that, not Dell. This Dell machine was originally sold with Windows XP and has the old COA on it.

Everest Home says I have a Presler with two cores.

My research indicates the original CPU must have been a Prescott. But the Pentium D it now has is a Presler Pentium D. (Why does the spell CHECK not like Presler?

A search on Prescott Pentium D shows there was no such a thing.

So, I am wondering. Was that the problem? The refurbish company used a new CPU in an older board? Can I salvage this PC?
That would be determined by what MBoard it is...

Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen.Sorry, Geek, you don't know how to search for CPU's.
http://www.cpu-world.com/index.html
Prescott is a Celeron-D
Pressler is a Pentium-D

D's are 1st generation dual core, most, if not all are 64-bit & use Socket 775. Quote from: patio on NOVEMBER 24, 2013, 03:12:12 PM

That would be determined by what MBoard it is...
Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen.

I think the mobo was made before 1007. The BIOS says 2006, but I think the vendor upgraded the BIOS. The motherboard bight be from 2005. I can not find a clear indication of which version it is.

Everest reports it as a GC520 motherboard. The original CPU, a single core Prescott CPU, is now about 2 or 4 dollars on eBay. So that would be one way to get it to work. But I just now ordered a couple of cheap Pentium D CPUs with lower clock rate, 2.8 rather than 3.4 that it now has. Maybe I shall have to dump it.
(Cue in the William Tell Overture.. tothe dump tothe dump tothe dump dump dump.)

But I hate to throw the thing into the dump. Here in California you have to take electronic trash to a special place to dispose.

Actually, I could by a used GX620 motherboard on eBay.
If it's a Dell, it's got a Service Tag. Look it up on Dell's support site.
http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19
Thanks, Computer_Commando
From the link uou gave I found:
Quote

Celeron Dual-Core desktop family replaced single-core Celeron 400 series microprocessors, that were released in the middle of 2007. First dual-core Celerons were based on Allendale core, which, besides the SECOND core, had practically the same features as single-core Celeron 400 series CPUs

That is a key bit of information. The motherboard was made before 2007, so was never sold with a dual-core Cleon. Yet the Celeron was listed by somebody on the Dell forum as a possible replacement that would give me 64 bit.

So maybe I should have tried a Celeron instead.
EDIT: I did the Dell site with the tag. No recommendations from Dell. But the social forum had this question posted sometime ago and said the fast Pentium D will crash the system. Too fast for the 945 chip set.

In a few days I will see if the2.8 GHz Pentium Ds In ordered will work.
It will show an inventory sheet of the "as shipped" .
POST the Service Tag, I'll get it.

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