Upgrading Celeron D cpu?

[MPTech]

I'd like to upgrade the CPU in my father-in-laws PC for him.

his mobo is an ASUS P4S8X-MX.

he's currently running a Celeron D345, what would be a good CPU upgrade that will run on this board?

(I've never been fond of the Celeron chips, I still run my old P4 2.4 and it feels much faster and more stable)

[Midknyte]

Good luck finding a socket 478. The SiS 661 chipset does support Prescotts, so you can look for one of those. You might find an old Northwood on ebay.

[Shinma]

Official supported processors listed at ASUS.

[SuperSparks]

Here's the list. I question whether it's really worth it though, IMO the Prescott Pentiums were one of the worst CPU series that Intel ever made

http://asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=zV...specifications

[MPTech]

I google'd the mobo last night and found the same information that Shinma referenced and SuperSparks link'd.

looks like the mobo will support:

Socket 478 for Intel Pentium 4/ Celeron
Support Intel Prescott CPU

what processor should I be looking for?

I think this is what he has:
CPU Speed: 3.06 GHz
Bus Speed: 533 MHz
Compatible Processor Socket: Socket 478
Cache Memory: L2 cache - 1 MB

I looked at this chart: All CPU Charts 2004 from Tom's Hardware, but can't find the 3.06 Celeron listed. (best I could find was "Intel Celeron D 2.80 GHz").

Can anyone find this CPU and recommend a better one that will work in this mobo?
(socket 478, Prescott, 800fsb sounds like what I should be looking for(?)

[SuperSparks]

Pentium 4 3.4E is the fastest you can go. I just don't think it's worth doing, you won't notice much difference. Unless you can find one very cheaply.

[Midknyte]

Did you run CPU-Z to get the CPU info and SSpec number? That would help.
http://www.cpuid.com/

A Celeron with 1MB cache on s478? That doesn't sound right.

[Train]

Scroll down and check out those 478's
http://mysite.verizon.net/pchardwarelinks/786.htm

Hope that link helps.

[MPTech]

nuts, appears to be a fruitless upgrade (I thought it would be easier and cheaper).
searched ePay, Carigslist (nationally, not locally), and Google. no good deals to be found. If I'm going to pay $100 for a new CPU, might as well upgrade to a cheap dual core & mobo. but then I have DDR, IDE, and AGP issues to upgrade.

Nevermind, I don't want to spend $200+ for HIS computer.
I was trying to do him a favor for cheap. He's retired on a fixed-budget, so I was going to pay for the upgrade.

PM me if you have an old Intel P4 socket 345 lying around and we can discuss price.

thanks for the help

[Steve R Jones]

Some people would kill for the processing power that a 3gig celeron will deliver