Replacing a P4 1.9 with a Celeron in a Dell4500. Is it possible?

[ZowieHowie]

My roommate's Dell4500 took a lightning hit and the motherboard and processor are fried (we believe). We want to fix it as cheaply as possible. I found someone on the board who would possibly sell me a motherboard for the Dell4550. The standard CPU that was in the board that got fried was a P4 1.9. I might want to replace it with a celeron since we are poor college students, and a celeron would be cheaper. Could this be done? Any ideas if any settings would need to be changed so the celeron would work properly?

 

[MDE]

What socket is it? There's two P4 socket designs, a Celeron will only fit in the newer one. Plus you can only use the 1.7+ Celerons, which pretty much suck IMHO.

 

[ZowieHowie]

the socket is 478. Will that work?

I know some people say that the celerons above a certain speed are not the greatest, but we are on a budget, and only surf the net and do some downloading.

 

[ZowieHowie]

any ideas anyone?