Able to upgrade dell?

[tb582]

I have an Dell Inspirion 8100 that I use from time to time I was wondering if I coulld upgrade the processor this is the info I found out by loging into my account with dell, let me know if it means anything to any of you. Ive tried doing some searches on google but havent come up with anything... here are they specs...

3F546 PRINTED WIRING ASSY, PLANAR (MOTHERBOARD), DIM8100, NETWORK INTERFACE CARD/CONTROLLERS, ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT, ICH2B4


9D340 PROCESSOR, 80528, 1.7GHZ, OK, 400FSB, SOCKET W

 

[ElFenix]

should be able to run a 2 ghz dothan, iirc. the 2.13 maybe not because it puts out more wattage.

frankly, the 300 MHz won't be worth the price of admission.

wait a minute... the inspiron 8100 never came with a pentium m. is that a p4? i thought that thing only took pentium 3s

 

[thegimp03]

Yes, you can upgrade it. Do you know whether it's socket 423 Willamette or socket 478 Northwood. It's been awhile but I think the 1.7 ghz P4's came in both flavors. I tried looking it up online but wasn't coming up with many results. You will be able to upgrade to any 400 mhz fsb Northwood no matter what. I believe they went up to 3.0 ghz (on a very limited supply), but you should be able to find the 2.6 ghz flavors still.

 

[tb582]

Thanks for replies, I'm not sure weather it is a wilamette or northwood, I can check tonight, cpuz should be able to find that out, right?

 

[Vegito]

isn't inspiron 8100 a notebook ?

 

[tb582]

No, lol I'm sorry I just realized its the dimension 8100

 

[tb582]

anyone?

 

[ElFenix]

i think you have a socket 423, which only went up to 1.8 Ghz before being phased out by socket 478 northwoods, iirc. so, no, you probably can't upgrade, sorry.

 

[Fox5]

And even if you could, there's a good chance you have SDR memory instead of rambus or DDR, and SDR greatly limits performance.

 

[Slowlearner]

OP please see: http://forums.us.dell.com/

I dont think its worth upgrading

 

[Slammy1]

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/desktops/0,39023850,10000057,00.htm

You see, you really want to upgrade components that could go into a new system. LOL, it's a pretty dead end system, you need to figure what you want to do with a PC. Money better spent would be to look for a cheap deal on a newer one, save up for a bit.

 

[halw]

Go to this link. They have a processor upgrade for your Dell. But honestly you would most likely be better served by getting a new Mobo, CPU and power supply and recyling the rest of you components.

One other thing. Make sure your Dell case will handle a non-Dell Mobo if you choose this route.

 

[Rockhound1]

I would have to agree with HALW. Gut the Dell by replacing the mobo, cpu, and power supply (if the Dell case will accept a standard ATX mobo).