So I have a Lenovo 3000 C200 from 2006 or so. Ghetto fabulous, I know. Anyway, it's starting to get sluggish when I do processor intensive things, like when I run Digsby, Firefox and Songbird at the same time (*rimshot*). What I was wondering is, what's the biggest meanest processor I can stick in this poor thing.
This is what CPU-Z says about the motherboard and processor;
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CPU-Z version 1.46
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Processors Map
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 1
Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0
Processors Information
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Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Name Intel Celeron M 420
Codename Yonah
Specification Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz
Package Socket 479 mPGA (platform ID = 5h)
CPUID 6.E.8
Extended CPUID 6.E
Core Stepping C0
Technology 65 nm
Core Speed 1596.2 MHz (12.0 x 133.0 MHz)
Rated Bus speed 532.1 MHz
Stock frequency 1600 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
L1 Data cache 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 1024 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control no
Features XD
My knowledge in this area is a bit limited, but I'm guessing that I need to find a Pentium Celeron M for Socket 479. Yes? No? Maybe so? Any vendor suggestions?