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Subject: Re: Can I economically upgrade this computer? HP Pavillion xg820 desktop

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 23:29:34 02/26/04

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On February 26, 2004 at 21:33:22, Luis Smith wrote:

>On February 26, 2004 at 21:15:13, J. C. Boco wrote:
>
>>http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/product.jhtml?reg=&cc=us&lc=en&plc=&pagetype=hppavilion28627
>>
>>I recently aquired this computer from someone.  I think it has a speedy 600 MHz
>>Celeron.
>
>Thats an understatement...
>
>>
>>The CD drive doesn't work, so I'm looking out for a good deal on a cheap CD
>>drive.  I'm wondering about upgrading the processor -- and how easy is this to
>>do?  The only thing I have done before is swap out a hard drive, insert a second
>>CD drive, and add RAM.
>>
>>Is this type of computer easily upgradable?  Would you make a suggestion on what
>>kind of processor I can add to it?
>
>If you wanted to add a new faster processor, you would also have to put in a new
>motherboard.  I don't know how easy this all is, so I would just recommend
>buying a new one.

It is very easy to do simply buy a motherboard combos from Pricewatch:
http://www.pricewatch.com

Click Motherboard combos and you can buy an Athlon AMD XP 2700+ 333 with CPU and
fan, for less than $130.00. Simply follow the intructions that comes with the
Manual.

Jorge



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