I've had my 7955 for about 4 or 5 years now. I bought it off a friend, came with 756mb of RAM and a nVidia Gefore FX 5200 video card. It's served me well but I'm looking to upgrade the processor. I've been reading old posts that for a 2.4ghz processor I need one with a B0 stepping. The the 1.5ghz P4 was switched out to a 1.8ghz celeron, Stepping = 3 Revision = E0. The pc has been running fine for the 3 years the celeron has been installed. Any thoughts? I provided a screenshot of teh cpu info from CPU-Z
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For the money and time envolved I would recomend buying a new computer. You would get a better all around machine for the money and if you add a little more you could really get the bang for your money. That being said, it would make for a nice project to change out processor and what ever else you wanted to change.
Hello Joshua: I totally agree & 2nd bassfisher6522's recommendation to you. whatever money you might've blown for a new proc would be a down payment on a brand new machine that would be similar to a B-2 bomber or the F-22 a state-of-the-art screamer! which could run current & future apps such as one with either an Intel Quad or an AMD Phenom II proc, 4-8GB of either PC-6200 or PC-8500 memory, at least a half Terabyte HD, an optical burner that can handle Lightscribe/Labelflash, a 256MB or more Video card, multiple USB a couple of e-SATA, & at least a 300w PSU. with your machine ultimately will be limited by the anemic 180w PSU, the USB 1.0 ports & the BIOS which is even challenging to upgrade to chipheads! I consider both my Pavilion 7965 & your 7955 which is a PC generation older more akin to the days of The Eastern Roman Empire in the 10th century or Charlamagne than the 21st century. I hope this helps & enlightens you.
Well, I'm looking to change out the CPU cause I can get one very cheap. I'm also broke and out of work at the moment. I'll be building a pc hopefully by the end of summer next year.
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