upgrading processor advice?

  What governs how much of an upgrade can be made with cpu's?  I have a
six-year-old Fujitsu Scenic T, 1.3 ghz (intel celeron).  I have souped-
up everything that will co-operate bar the processor.

Thanks.

 
Start by figuring out which package/socket the processor/motherboard
has.

Some of the problems you may run into:

1. The motherboard  and socket (and BIOS) will limit the speed and
type of processor you can use
2. The motherboard will limit the speed and type of memory you can use

Usually the main problem is that you also want to increase the amount
and speed of memory, and then you find that the memory limit is soon
exceeded, or the type of memory is long gone out of style (and
therefore is expensive or hard to find).

6 years is  several generations of computers and technology.

But if you want to do it, Craigslist and equivalent are often good
places to find upgrade components, at least in some parts of the world.

  poachedeggs wrote:

If the machine is S370, the top processor was 1.4GHz.

I suspect there may be more than one model of that computer,
so if there is more to the name of the computer than that,
you might try Googling to see if someone has already
tried a different processor in it. The Pentium has
more cache than the Celeron, but that is not going to
make enough difference for the money it would cost.

The "CPUZ" program can be used to give more hardware
details about your machine.

If you want to upgrade, one consideration might be
the OS you're interested in running. If you're already
using WinXP, then no problem finding hardware for
that. If you're running Win98SE, that can be more of
a challenge. I was able to install Win98SE on my
Asrock 4COREDUAL-SATA2 ($70) and Core2 E4700 2.6GHz ($170 retail),
with an old AGP video card. So there are some
platforms that will allow Win98SE to run. Win98SE
will only use one core of the two on the processor,
but is much faster at rendering web pages, than
my old Celeron 1.1GHz. (I installed Win98SE as
an experiment, to see if it would still work.)

    Paul

 On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:29:12 -0800 (PST), poachedeggs


There is no reasonable gain to be had, your processor is
already too near the max performance possible from socket
370.   If you want to keep it snappy for basic uses, install
Firefox and block ads, scripts, and flash.  Install an older
Office Suite like Office 2000 or '97.   Compare the OS
memory load to the amount of memory installed and lighten
that load if reasonably possible.

That system might make a reasonable DIY NAS if you tossed a
gigabit ethernet card and SATA RAID card into it, though at
it's present age the motherboard or PSU might be too worn to
expect another tour of duty out of them.   Then again, the
cost of the two PCI cards could just be put towards another
drive for a newer system which would tend to have gigabit
ethernet and raid built-in.

 
The pc is a Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic T with D1371 mainboard.  On a .pdf
I found it says the maximum RAM is 512 mb.  However, when I had a
Compaq deskpro just before it I learnt through forums that it could
exceed the manufacturer's specified RAM, and at the time of this
Fujitsu .pdf the machine had a 1.2 ghz processor rather than the 1.3,
so perhaps this .pdf is significantly too contemporary to when the
machine was new and might be ignored.  Should I be able to have 1 gb
in there?  Money is tight and I'm just souping the machine up
gradually as a hobby interest thing prior to making my first attempt
at assembling it's newest compenents with a new motherboard, though
that is some way off.

So, if you can confirm that I should be able to reach 1 gb, I'll get
512 mb at a time from someone on eBay with 100% feedback.

If it helps you answer, I've looked at the .pdf and can add it has:

Intel 810E2 chipset

FC PGA370 processor socket.

Thanks.