TDP rating

[hnknskywlkr]

I was talking to my mom about how im doing a little upgrade on my comp and she mention hers is running like sh*t

 

When I got to her house ,you could hear the Fan across the room

So I took a look and the heat-sink on CPU was loaded with dust,like packed in there...bad

 

I had some thremal grease so I removed the fan/Heat-sink and cleaned out the H/S looking like new

When I was removing the fan,i noticed that it was blowing air away from H/S,not onto it

That isn't normal right?

I replaced the H/S and fan(blowing onto the H/S) and it is running quiet

Something I looked at though was she has a Intel Celeron D @  3.46Ghz( single core)

I have an old comp sitting in closet with a Pentium D @ 2.8Ghz(Dual core)

I know the clock is less but is dual core,would it help to switch out?

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-D-820-vs-Intel-Celeron-D-360

 

also,I have looked all over and cant find the TDP specs for her MOBO

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00910113

 

Celeron is 65w

pentium is 95w

 

Want to make sure it will work

 

Her comp is a compaq

and the CPU I want to put in is out of a Dell

That shouldn't matter bios wise should it

[DigitalHermit]

As long as the sockets are the same, the chipset supports the Pentium, and the bios supports the Pentium, then it should be fine...

[hnknskywlkr]

Thank you and yes,It works great

Literally plug and play

I shut comp down,unplugged and drained out remaining elec

Let sit for a minute,removed Heat Sink and old CPU

Installed new CPU and Thermal grease,Replaced heat sink

Powered up,Windows XP did its thing of updating,restarted and it is working great