Intel Celeron.

Hi all, I am giving my nephew a HP Pavilion 6553. And I want to upgrade the cpu for him. I contacted HP tech support and they told me the highest cpu you I can put in here is a Intel Celeron 800mhz. Well this will be the first time I have bought a new cpu to put in a pc. Is there any certain type of Intel Celeron 800mhz I need to put in the pc or will any Intel Celeron 800mhz work? Also it came with 466mhz Celeron. Since the other one will put off more heat do I need to buy a new cpu fan and heat sink?

If your old heatsink/fan is aftermarket then it's probably fine since you're still going to be using socket 370. If not then the new CPU will probably have a fan with in anyway. If for some reason it doesn't I'd just get a new heatsink/fan that's way overkill, because overkill is good. Personally I wouldn't use the old stock heatsink/fan. Check this out http://support.intel.com/support/pro.../CS-007436.htm

If you just go with the heatsink/fan that comes with the new CPU then remove the thermal paste that comes stock and use Arctic Silver.

Thanks for the information. That link was good. I am going to get some Artic Silver. I might go ahead and buy a heat sink and fan for the cpu.

I contacted Hp technical support for a second time just to make sure how high of a cpu the board could support. The first about 2 months ago they told Intel Celeron 800mhz. But this time they told me Intel Celeron 500mhz. If its 500mhz I won't upgrade from 466mhz becuase it wouldn't matter. Can some one tell me what it can support? By the way the pc is an Hp Pavilion 6553 with an Intel i810 chipset.

Hi Jay,

You can upgrade to a Celeron 533mhz. But, there are 2 of them so choose carefully...one will work the other will not. Interestingly enough, I've found that the 466mhz is the best of this "bunch".

Good luck.


SM

I searched Hp site for while and yea max is 533. But a friend of mine stumble across something called Power leap. He has the same pc. And Power Leap is adapter you put down after you remove old cpu then you put new cpu down. It supports up to 1.1 gig. Has anyone used power leap before? Will it cause any problems? It is a 25 US dollars adapter. Here is the website for it.
http://powerleap.com/

Maybe this will help:

http://www.overclockers.com/articles117/

http://www.powerleap.com/

SM

http://powerleap.com/PL-P3SMP.html
That is what your are looking at?

May I suggest switching from the celery to a regular intel cpu.
Believe me, you will see a difference.

Ok this seems like a good idea. The one you showed me was for a slot 1 but I have a slot 370. The one I found and the one my friend mention is this one. http://powerleap.com/NeoS370.html Why would I need this adapter. The adapter looks pretty basic. Did the slot 370 change and this is just an adapter to line up the pins. Hp says I can only use a celeron. I want to get a Pentium 3 for it. What I can't under stand if the Pentium 3 can fit a slot 370 and runs at the correct fbs. Why would I only be able to use a celeron.

The power leap site says that adapter can use a Pentuim 3 or Celeron. I found a Pentium 3 1.0 gig for 85 US dollars but I also I found a 1.0 gig Celeron for 35. I really don't have the cash for to afford the Pentium 3 plus the adapter:( But if I get celeron it would be faster than my pc that I use. And I could just keep the one I was going to give to my nephew and switch the parts. How will a celeron 1.0 gig compare to a 650 Pentuim 3? Would there be any difference. I wish I had the money just to build me one but I don't.

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Originally posted by jayclark
The power leap site says that adapter can use a Pentuim 3 or Celeron. I found a Pentium 3 1.0 gig for 85 US dollars but I also I found a 1.0 gig Celeron for 35. I really don't have the cash for to afford the Pentium 3 plus the adapter:( But if I get celeron it would be faster than my pc that I use. And I could just keep the one I was going to give to my nephew and switch the parts. How will a celeron 1.0 gig compare to a 650 Pentuim 3? Would there be any difference. I wish I had the money just to build me one but I don't.

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650 to 1.0 would be about even .

Money does dictate what we do.

Jay,

I've had 3 Celerons. I would stay away from them if at all possible----you can do much better. Just as an example, look below:

http://www.secondwindpcs.com/default...AKH0JXR2SS9W75

These are guaranteed and just like new.

SM

Well since I really don't want to put more money in to that old pc than I have to. I can get the Intel Celeron 1.0 100 fbs for 35 dollars plus the power leap adapter for 25. That should be a big improvement over the Intel Celeron 466 66 fbs. If it was my pc I wouldn't go for the celeron neither but just trying to give my nephew something with a lil bit more power for cheap since I won't really be using it. So in performance wise is it worth it?

Unless you mobo automatical or with a jumper can be switched to the 100FSB, it will still run at the 66.