Upgrading a Dimension 8300?

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Does anyone know what the fastest processor possible for this Dell model is? My girlfriend had to reformat her hard drive and I figured as long as I was cleaning it, I might be able to upgrade the processor for cheap given it's an older generation...

Thank you for your help!

 

[TheStu]

What is the current processor in it?

 

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Pentium 4 2.66 w/ 512kb

 

[Brainonska511]

I think you can use up to a Pentium 4 3.06 (Socket 478) processor in it, but you'd have to double check on that. Check out Dell's Community Forum - a lot of posts there about what people are able to upgrade with.

Either way, I don't think you'd see much of a difference in such a small upgrade.