Question: Dell P4 1.6 to 2.8 - Club CDFreaks

varietysound1 · 19-07-2008

I am wondering if i can put in a 2.8 and take out the 1.6 of a Dell 4300 P4, and then upgrade the hard drive and how to do this?

**mciahel** · 19-07-2008

Hi and Welcome!

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Originally Posted by varietysound1

I am wondering if i can put in a 2.8 and take out the 1.6 of a Dell 4300 P4,

This one? http://support.euro.dell.com/support...cs.htm#1101572
Forget any CPU upgrades. The power supply can't cope with the power demands of faster processors, and the slow PC133 RAM will cripple the performance of any faster CPU.

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and then upgrade the hard drive and how to do this?

You can install a larger HDD. Please refer to the manual how to do that: http://support.euro.dell.com/support...ce.htm#1101572

Michael

*eric93se* · 20-07-2008

I was going to suggest to get a modern HDD to boost speed, but with an older dell like that there's a chance that it won't accept a modern ata133 HDD. The bios won't recognize the drive most likely, due to the LBA addressing, it might but there's a good chance that it won't.

If you want help building a new system budget or not, let us know.

19-07-2008	#1 (permalink)
varietysound1 New on Forum Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3	Dell P4 1.6 to 2.8 <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> I am wondering if i can put in a 2.8 and take out the 1.6 of a Dell 4300 P4, and then upgrade the hard drive and how to do this?

20-07-2008	#3 (permalink)
eric93se CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,810	Re: Dell P4 1.6 to 2.8 I was going to suggest to get a modern HDD to boost speed, but with an older dell like that there's a chance that it won't accept a modern ata133 HDD. The bios won't recognize the drive most likely, due to the LBA addressing, it might but there's a good chance that it won't. If you want help building a new system budget or not, let us know.

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