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

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ZowieHowie

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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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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