linuxgeek: WPLUG: WAS Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Dell GX240 CPU Upgrade??

Monday, January 13, 2014

WPLUG: WAS Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Dell GX240 CPU Upgrade??

Please do not thread-jack... your post is certainly useful, I'm sure,
to people on this list, but you should start your own thread for it.

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Stanley C. Slomberg
<scslomberg@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Do any of your Newbies know about the WPLUG, Western PA Linux Users Group.
> We are looking for new members and would like to hear from anyone who is in
> the metropolitan Pittsburgh area to go to the www.wplug.org and come to a
> future meeting. The next one is Jan 11 at 2 pm. Go to the site and see where
> it is.
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> On Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:20 PM, Joan Leach <jleach728@sbcglobal.net>
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> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/298019-28-optiplex-gx240
> Might be a good place to start...
> Joan in Reno
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> From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 4, 2014 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Dell GX240 CPU Upgrade??
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> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 02:09:11PM -0500, Hal wrote:
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>> Greetings: Anyone familiar with upgrading a Dell GX240 Desktop to a faster
>> CPU than the existing 478 socket Pentium 4, 1.6gHz, Brookdale 1gB RAM??
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>> The Dell is presently streaming good on YouTube with CertOS6.3 and the
>> QtWeb
>> browser but marginal at 360p with a few artifacts and much out of audio
>> sync, using a Dell AGP DVI video card and DVI monitor..
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>> I also wonder if upping the CPU speed would be better, or are there other
>> more important parameters??
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> Depending upon how much you want to spend, you might be better off
> upgrading the motherboard AND processor.
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> Another, easier option, _might_ be to upgrade RAM and see if that helps.
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> As I haven't played with a processor upgrade to a GX240, I can't be much
> more help, I'm afraid.
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