CPU upgrade for Dell Precision 410

[Honker]

If a similar question has been covered previously, my apology to all.

I just bought a Dell Precision 410 (motherboard supports up to dual Slot 1 P-III 700's - 7 x 100) running dual P-II 400's. I would like to upgrade the processors, but 700's are somewhat pricey.

I have been told that I can install Celeron 1.0 or 1.2 GHz chips on slockets for a lot less. However, I don't have any experience with this and I'm hoping someone can help out?

Questions I have are:

1. What do I do about the on-board jumpers?
2. What Celeron would you recommend to give the most bang for the buck?
3. What slocket should I use? Any specific things I need to look for such as voltage setting? Ability to dual a Celeron CPU?
4. Do the new 256k cache Celerons require a different slocket than the 128k cache chips?

Any assistance would be very much appreciated. I'm not much with a soldering iron, so please keep that in mind.

Thanks to all in advance!

 

[Vegito]

no, probably now
slocket will not work
I manager 400 of these p410s


1. Open your computer, lay it flat, look at it from the front where the bottem of the mobo is, there is a serial # revision sticker, let me know what that is.

Fastest processor these can take with a bios upgrade using A14 is p3 1ghz 100 fsb.

I have several at 1Ghz, 850, 800 coppermines (256K cache), all upgraded from 500 Katmai (512k cache)

Slocket does not work, I tried using FC-PGA chips and it hangs and locks up and wont even recognize second processor..

Dont waste your money. If your running dual 400 you might have older revision which would not work with higher P3. Some does not have the voltage requirement.

Revision of mobo is key.. earlier revision will not work.. I think the range is from A1 to A12 or A14