upgrading a processor

Lum

One person says Socket A, another says Socket 939. Until you know which it actually is (and AMD 2800 could be either a very fast Socket A or a very slow 939) it's impossible to advise clearly. CPU-Z will tell you what you actually have. However if it's Socket A, you're not going to get much faster and if it's Socket 939 there is a massive premium on fast secondhand s939 processors because AMD killed s939 so suddenly. For the price of something like a 3800+ on eBay you could probably buy a whole new mid-spec PC that would be just as fast anyway.

Oneday77

silkyuk9 wrote: »

mobile AMD athlon XP-M 2800+ 1.60GHz, 2.00 gig ram

Is an old Socket A processor. I cut my teeth on overclocking that series of processors, the M means it is a mobile chip. The 939 sockets became Athlon 64 **00 series chips.
Which does raise a question, was the PC custom built? Unlikely a manufacturer put a Mobile chip in a desktop. Only reason to do it would be if it was bought to be overclocked, was bought as a custom built overclocked PC or it is a small form PC like a Shuttle. It thats the case then we need more info on the actuall PC here. Or am I thinking too much...ooh ma heid

Lum

Missed that bit of the post, whoops. You are correct that it is Socket A then. Other reason is an XP-M was acquired from somewhere (I got mine from a dead company laptop) and thrown into that PC as a cheap/free upgrade. Not really much you can do to upgrade that any further, short of overclocking, the fastest Socket A they ever made was a "3200+", hardly a massive upgrade for the outlay you would spend. There's some dude on eBay selling one which he claims will go to 3600+ but that's still not really worth the effort.

Oneday77

The 2800 M-XP easily overclocked past a 3200+ as did the 2500 but nowadays even those overclocks are blown into the weeds with more modern processors.