I am trying to beef up my dell desktop and in the process of putting in new ram and a bigger processor. I have got the ram part figured out and ordered and am now in the process of ordering a bigger processor. My machine has a 1.8Ghz intel P4 and the new one I am ordering is a Intel 3.0Ghz P4 800 Mhz will this work with my machine? Or do I have to modify anything to make this work, and if it will work will my computer cooling fan be strong enough or does this have to be upgraded as well. The new processor comes with a cooling fan.
Edited to add: The new processor is a prescott.
Below are the specs taking from my machine
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Name Intel Pentium 4
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 7
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Core Stepping C1
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 1794.2 MHz
Clock multiplier x 18.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 99.7 MHz
Bus Speed 398.7 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 1794.2 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
Motherboard model 07W080, A00
BIOS vendor Mitac International
BIOS revision A01
BIOS release date 12/17/2002
Chipset Intel i845GL rev. B1
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. 2
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 256 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 132.9 MHz
FSB
RAM 3:4
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 1
Module 0 Micron Technology DDR-SDRAM PC2100 - 256 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c