Hi I have a question. I have a old compaq 5410US computer. It has an intel celeron 1.3 ghz processor. I want to put a new processor in it. Am I able to a Pentium 3 or core duo in it or does my computer have to be made a certain way for that. Can you please tell me what kind of processor I can upgrade it to. The requirements of the program I want needs a P III 1 GHz, Athlon XP 1.4 GHz. I have no idea what that means. Can someone please tell me if I can upgrade to those requirements. THANK YOU From what I can find out your board will support Pentium III/Celeron CPUs with a FSB of 100MHz.
The fastest CPU you can get is a Celeron 1400MHz, so it's not worth upgrading.
You meet the system requirements already, but out of interest what is this program?

Welcome to the forums.You cannot put any kind of core duo processor in that computer. The best CPU can you plug into this mobo is P3-S 1.4 GHz. But you'd have a job to find one nowadays. Also it would not be much faster than Celery 1.3 GHz. This machine is not worth upgrading.

The program requirement you describe is not that much DIFFERENT from what you already have.
Dias - the P3-S has a 133MHz FSB if I'm not mistaken, from what I can find out the motherboard only supports a 100MHz FSB.
And you're right, they're very hard to find nowadays, I was looking for one a few months ago.Yes, the P3-S would have to run off the 100 MHz fsb & this would negate any (very) small PERFORMANCE increase I would think.
You could upgrade to 512 mb ram. Here

You could also use an agp graphics card. 64MB is about all you

would need.Here

This will make EVERYTHING run about 25% faster,or better in some cases.

Quote from: Dias de verano on July 18, 2008, 03:46:39 AM

Yes, the P3-S would have to run off the 100 MHz fsb & this would negate any (very) small performance increase I would think.