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I am running an AMD 1.7 processor on my PC. What I am wondering is: Can I put a pentium 4 in it? If I order a new 2.4 processor, can I upgrade my PC like I upgrade my soundcard?

AMD and Pentium are two different animals.

You will need a motherboard change to do it.

AMD and Intel use mutually incompatible formats for their processors. The last time you could swap an AMD with an Intel was in the days of the 80486...

As for your second question, it depends on what generation of AMD processor you have. I'm assuming you have an Athlon XP, in which case there wouldn't be any trouble putting in a new Athlon XP...

OK thanks guys... Hey, so where would get a new Athlon XP processor?

OK, I found an AMD Athlon XP 2500 + Barton 333FSB for 123 dollars, and an AMD Athlon XP 1800 + Thoroughbred 266FSB Processor for 66. I guess I should order the first one...

I wold save my cash.

The extrra speed prob ain't so great wait untill you can get more than dubble the speed or sumthing.

But that's just me...

Make sure his board can take the new CPU...

How can I check to see if I can take the CPU? Contact HP and ask about my system?

Find out what chipset your motherboard runs first using WCPUID. You can then determine what processors you can use.

Superman wrote:I am running an AMD 1.7 processor on my PC. What I am wondering is: Can I put a pentium 4 in it? If I order a new 2.4 processor, can I upgrade my PC like I upgrade my soundcard?

Umm, no. As others have said, AMD != Intel. If you're using an AMD 1.7, then you probably have a good enough setup for an Athon XP 2000+ or 2200+. However, anything faster than that is going to use a 333 MHz FSB, which your board may not be new enough to support.

Get a good heat-sink Supes AMDs run hot, and have upgrading man.

Superman-why do you want to upgrade in the first place?
Just because you 'feel like it'(which is a perfectly legitimate reason as long as it's your money), are you experiencing trouble that you think/somebody told you a CPU upgrade would overcome, or do you have / are thinking about getting SW that has higher CPU requirements than your system?

I'm asking in the light of your other PC help thread because if this is the same system, the problem may turn out not to be with the CPU after all.

Wait. You claim you're using an HP Pavilion 553W with an AMD processor? AFAIK, that was an Intel machine unless someone's made serious changes to your box.

According to this it actually IS an Athlon system.
Mind you, according to this, Pavillon PCs use a Trigem P4/Celeron board so...
Since both those links come from the official HP site it appears phongn was being generous in calling it useless...

Superman wrote:OK, I found an AMD Athlon XP 2500 + Barton 333FSB for 123 dollars, and an AMD Athlon XP 1800 + Thoroughbred 266FSB Processor for 66. I guess I should order the first one...

Yeah, since (if your HP really is an Athlon XP system) the second one is actually downgrading.

The HP 533 is theoretically supposed to come with a 1.73 GHz chip, while the Athlon XP 1800+ runs at 1.53GHz. So anything over a 2100+ is an upgrade.

You can't use a Barton. You need a processor with the 266MHz FSB, not the 333MHz one.