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April 8th, 2009 11:00

Dimension 4500 Processor Upgrade

I was just recently given a P4  2.8 /1MB/533  processor and would like to know if this would work in my machine. What I question is whether or not the L2 cache of 1 MB in this processor would be a problem ?  The specs from the manual are below .

Dell™ Dimension™ 4500

Microprocessor

Microprocessor type

Intel® Pentium® 4 microprocessor that runs at 1.60, 1.70, 1.80, 1.90, 2.00, 2.20, or 2.40 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally; and 2.26, 2.40, 2.53, 2.66, or 2.80 GHz internally and 533 MHz externally.

L1 cache

8 KB first-level

L2 cache

integrated 256-KB or 512-KB at full microprocessor speed