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Possible upgrade options for old Intel Celeron 775 cpu

Possible upgrade options for old Intel Celeron 775 cpu

I have a rather old Intel Celeron 2,35 ghz cpu with (from what i can tell with cpu-id) an Intel 82801 chipset. It was bought from Dell 5 years ago.

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Guest [Entry]

"82801 is a southbridge not the chipset

I think given the age and socket it is probably a Prescott Celeron D which would be an 845 or 865 chipset. Which limits your upgrade options to the old Pentium 4. It predates VT extentions by a long time so it would not be at all possible to upgrade to a VT enabled CPU and isn't really worth upgrading.

Really you are looking at replacing the machine. There may be components that you can bring across like the harddrive but to think about a cpu upgrade you really need a motherboard which is 2 years or less.

List of celerons with dates, sockets and chipsets http://en.wikipediadotorg/wiki/Celeron#Celeron_D"
Guest [Entry]

"IF your board features an LGA 775 socket anf IF the BIOS supports VT-x (which i doubt with a 5 years old DELL), then you can upgrade to a VT-x capable processor.

there are two Pentium 4 HT processor that are VT-x capable and that will fit the LGA 775 socket:

Pentium 4 HT 662 3.6 GHz

and

Pentium 4 HT 672 3.8 GHz

but to be honest, this isn't worth it. buy a new machine if you want VT-x powered virtualization."