Can a Del GX 520 upgrade to Pentium D?

[Geek-9pm]

This is not really a software issue. It is a hardware question.
about a year ago I bought a refurbished Optiplex GX 520 fro a eBay vendor. Now the wartrtenty is up and I still have issues with the video,. The PC will crash while watching Netflix. This Dell SSF PC came with Windows 7 64 bit installed. The vendor did that, not Dell. This Dell machine was originally sold with Windows XP and has the old COA on it.

Everest Home  says  I have a Presler  with two cores.

My research indicates the original CPU must have been a Prescott. But the Pentium D it now has is a Presler Pentium D.  (Why does the spell check not like  Presler?

A search on Prescott  Pentium D shows there was no such a thing.

So, I am wondering. Was that the problem? The refurbish company used a new CPU in an older board? Can I salvage this PC?

[patio]

That would be determined by what MBoard it is...

Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen.

[Computer_Commando]

Sorry, Geek, you don't know how to search for CPU's.
http://www.cpu-world.com/index.html
Prescott is a Celeron-D
Pressler is a Pentium-D

D's are 1st generation dual core, most, if not all are 64-bit & use Socket 775.

[Geek-9pm]

That would be determined by what MBoard it is...
Whether it would be worth it or not remains to be seen.

I think the mobo was made before 1007. The BIOS says 2006, but I think the vendor upgraded the BIOS. The motherboard  bight be from 2005. I can not find a clear indication of which version it is.

Everest reports it as a GC520 motherboard. The original CPU,  a single core Prescott CPU,  is now about 2 or 4 dollars on eBay. So that would be one way to get it to work. But I just now ordered a couple of cheap Pentium D CPUs with lower clock rate, 2.8 rather than  3.4 that it now has.  Maybe  I shall have to dump it.
(Cue in the William Tell Overture.. tothe dump tothe  dump tothe  dump dump dump.)

But I hate to throw the thing into the dump. Here in California you have to take electronic trash to a special place to dispose.

Actually, I could by a used GX620  motherboard on eBay.

[Computer_Commando]

If it's a Dell, it's got a Service Tag.  Look it up on Dell's support site.
http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19

[Geek-9pm]

Thanks, Computer_Commando
From the link uou gave I found:

Celeron Dual-Core desktop family replaced single-core Celeron 400 series microprocessors, that were released in the middle of 2007. First dual-core Celerons were based on Allendale core, which, besides the second core, had practically the same features as single-core Celeron 400 series CPUs

That is a key bit of information. The motherboard was made before 2007, so was never sold with a dual-core Cleon. Yet the Celeron was listed by somebody on the Dell forum as a possible replacement that would give me 64 bit.

So maybe I should have tried a Celeron instead.
EDIT: I did  the Dell site with the tag. No recommendations from Dell. But the social forum had this question posted sometime ago and said the fast Pentium D will crash the system. Too fast for the 945 chip set.


In a few days I will see if the2.8 GHz  Pentium Ds In ordered will work.

[Computer_Commando]

It will show an inventory sheet of the "as shipped" .
Post the Service Tag, I'll get it.