Dell 8400 upgrade

[123381]

Upgraded my Dell 8400 (530)with ax64bit chip and it worked (630)

Anybody done this with a Dell?

[maximus7001]

Re: Dell 8400 upgrade

64bit? what are you talking about?

[Yawgm0th]

Re: Dell 8400 upgrade

As in he went from a Pentium 4 530 to a 64-bit Pentium 4 630. It's about the most colossal waste of money I've ever seen that didn't involve eBay.

[Amd_Lover2004]

Re: Dell 8400 upgrade

I dont even know that to say to that other than to back up what Yawgm0th said.
You traded your P4 530 which clocks at 3GHZ for a P4 630 which clocks the same, the only diffrence being the 630 having another 1MB L2 cache and EM64, not a worthy investment, period.

[wayout44]

Re: Dell 8400 upgrade

You traded your P4 530 which clocks at 3GHZ for a P4 630 which clocks the same, the only diffrence being the 630 having another 1MB L2 cache and EM64, not a worthy investment, period.

Both the 530 and 630 have 1MB L2 caches but the 630 does have SpeedStep which the 530 doesn't though still I have to agree at the waste of $'s on a Dell.

[123381]

Re: Dell 8400 upgrade

Both the 530 and 630 have 1MB L2 caches but the 630 does have SpeedStep which the 530 doesn't though still I have to agree at the waste of $'s on a Dell.

[Yawgm0th]

now, but for simple future-proofing it makes no sense. You could just get it in the future, when it's cheaper, or you when you could afford something froim Intel that actually has a higher clockspeed (and works on the same chispet, as Intel is screwing around with different chipsets and letting old ones die). Besides, it's pretty hard to future-proof a PC if it can't use dual-core. That provides huge benefits now, which will increase dramatically as software starts to take advantage of it in the near future.

[casecutter]

Re: Dell 8400 upgrade

DELL


Dude, you should have built your own.