I bought a refurbished HP compaq d530 CMT desktop computer to play around with and work on. It has a 40gig hard drive, 1g memory (I think two 512mb sticks) and an Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz processor. Needless to say these are pretty low specs. I think the CPU is just a single core (not for sure), so I was thinking of replacing it with this:
Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
Do you know if I will be able to drop this in on the stock motherboard or will I have to buy an aftermarket motherboard? Is there one you would recommend? I think my stock pin configuration on the CPU is 478.
Also, it has a Intel 82865G Video Graphics Card. I was thinking of replacing that with this:
Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100253HDMI Radeon HD 4650 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Low Profile Ready Video Card
Sound good?
Last but not least, If i purchase all of the above, I am going to buy two 2gig DDR3 RAM sticks. Would there be a problem at all with this?
Your help is much appreciated,
Thanks,
Daedulas
Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
Do you know if I will be able to drop this in on the stock motherboard or will I have to buy an aftermarket motherboard? Is there one you would recommend? I think my stock pin configuration on the CPU is 478.
Also, it has a Intel 82865G Video Graphics Card. I was thinking of replacing that with this:
Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100253HDMI Radeon HD 4650 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Low Profile Ready Video Card
Sound good?
Last but not least, If i purchase all of the above, I am going to buy two 2gig DDR3 RAM sticks. Would there be a problem at all with this?
Your help is much appreciated,
Thanks,
Daedulas