CPU died AMD Athlon xp 2100 can I replace it?

BillScarab

Komplett have some Motherboard, CPU, Ram bundles here

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/kl.asp?bn=10300

those are the AMD ones, they also do Intel ones. The only point to consider is what graphics card do you have, is it AGP or PCI-E as most modern boards only support PCI-E. If you need to replace the Graphics card as well it may even be worth looking at a new machine.

Gary_zero

The fan is still working it has now been cleaned out but the CPU gets extremely hot very quickly.
The graphics card is a 64mg GeForce 4MX 440 I don't know if this is AGP or PCI-E ???
Thanks for your help.

superscaper

Gary_zero wrote:

The fan is still working it has now been cleaned out but the CPU gets extremely hot very quickly.
The graphics card is a 64mg GeForce 4MX 440 I don't know if this is AGP or PCI-E ???
Thanks for your help.

It'll be AGP, socket a motherboards were pretty much discontinued before PCI express came out. Also you wouldn't find a geforce 4 with a PCI-E slot. I think earliest nvidia generation to be pci-e is geforce 6.

BillScarab

Googling for your motherboard it looks like it has an AGP Graphics slot so if you replace the motherboard and CPU you'll probably need a new Graphics card as well PCI-E is now the standard for Graphics Card slots. You can get motherboards that support AGP and PCI-e so if you got one of those you can del;ay upgrading the graphics card.

yogi3

you just need to renew the thermal paste between cpu and heatsink.
If you try this be careful not to damage mb.

Gary_zero

I've been looking at a new PC as an option (not sure yet)
what do you guys think of this one?
http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1125444935.1166179169@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdfaddjjehfhlkcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&sku=908234&tabIndex=1
Thanks

DuncanMiller

if you are going to buy a new computer I would check out the labs tests at https://www.computershopper.co.uk

they get companies to build pcs to a certain price level then give you a good idea of which ones are best value etc...

Will more than likley get more for your money than buying from currys