Need to change CPU don't know which one i can put on to upgrade

**joe-blogs45** · August 29th, 2012, 10:44 AM

Hi,
I need to change the CPU on my motherboard as it is getting outdated and is really slow I have a Compaq Presario, Here is the PC specs of it
Compaq Presario SR5414UK Desktop PC Product Specifications Compaq Presario SR5414UK Desktop PC - HP technical support (United Kingdom - English)
I am not sure on what to get and my price barrier is not high at all.

**Detritus** · August 29th, 2012, 10:46 AM

Welcome to TechIMO!
I took the liberty of moving your thread from the community to one of the hardware related forums where it will get the correct attention.

**RicheemxX** · August 29th, 2012, 11:30 AM

Well the board specs tell you your limits though I suspect you might be able to choose from a few others so long as they are socket 775:

Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:

Core 2 Duo E7xxx (Wolfdale-M)
Core 2 Duo E4x00 (Conroe)
Pentium E2xxx series (Conroe)
Celeron Dual Core E1xx0 series (Conroe)
Celeron 4xx series (Conroe)

The problem you are facing is that you are upgrading a PC that is several generations old. Just adding in a bit faster CPU would be like putting it on life support. You might squeeze a bit more out of it, but in the end your going to have to bite the bullet, so to speak.

When you say its getting slow, slow for what type of use?
Limited budget doesn't help? How much are we talking?
Since they are a discontinued item Socket 775 chips can be difficult to find!

edit: I'm assuming you are from the UK? I just looked at the few retailers I know and none of them have any chips listed. So you might be limited to trying to buy a used chip if you did want to try the upgrade.

**joe-blogs45** · August 29th, 2012, 11:40 AM

I will have a look at them ones but i think you might be right about if i put another in itle be like putting it on life support, Yes i do like in the UK and no the stores here are not helpfull at all really and the budget isn't much at all probably about the top of £50.
But thanks for your help you have told me things i didn't know about it which will make my search a bit easier, i will look on ebay or something to try and help my search

**RicheemxX** · August 29th, 2012, 11:50 AM

That is always one of the biggest problems when dealing with a bit older tech. Often it cost more to upgrade than the upgrade is worth. For the same price or even a bit more you might be able to put together a newer low end combo that would out perform what you'd end up upgrading to.

**joe-blogs45** · August 29th, 2012, 11:52 AM

That would probably be the better option really in the end i might just save up and get a new motherboard then i won't have to worry about that or a graphics card finding problem as well which i am having trouble with to.

**JPMiller** · August 29th, 2012, 10:42 PM

Sell it, and put that towards a new tower, your already and the end-of-life for that PC, no point in throwing away money.

**ShyguyXPC** · August 30th, 2012, 01:19 AM

Agreed with Rich and JP. For not Too much you can get a more modern Low end setup that would outperform your current systems Top of the line upgrade route.

obviously your budget right now won't be able to afford one, but for 50 GBP you can get a decent lower end Intel Pentium Dual Core on the Socket 1155 platform that will beat any of the CPU's you could max your system out on now. Even compete with some of the Quad cores that you can't upgrade to with your current system.

or You could opt for some of AMD's Llanos CPU's that would compare similarly to Intel Core 2 era Quad cores, but pack a low budget range AMD Radeon chip on the CPU for graphics as well.