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Hi...I'm new here and I really need help.

I have my eMachines ET1641-02w with

Motherboard MCP73VT-PM and
Intel Celeron Duo Core E1400.
4Gb DDR2 Ram PC6400
Now I want to upgrade to Core 2 Duo E7500 or E8400. So anyone help me about that???

Thank you very much....

Download HWinFO32 and post the results under the Motherboard drop down. Depending on the chipset your motherboard uses you might not be able to use a newer Core2Duo.

*EDIT*
Platform1
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Intel Pentium™ Dual Core processor
Intel Celeron™ Dual Core processor
Intel Celeron processor
NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7050 chipset (MCP73V)
http://support.gateway.com/emachines/em ... 1sp2.shtml

So I'm assuming there it supports 1333 FSB CPUs. Now that I think it will work, what is your question? Is it how to install a CPU? If so when you buy a new CPU there are instructions included in the box with pictures.

Major_A wrote:Download HWinFO32 and post the results under the Motherboard drop down. Depending on the chipset your motherboard uses you might not be able to use a newer Core2Duo.

*EDIT*
Platform1
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Intel Pentium™ Dual Core processor
Intel Celeron™ Dual Core processor
Intel Celeron processor
NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7050 chipset (MCP73V)
http://support.gateway.com/emachines/em ... 1sp2.shtml

So I'm assuming there it supports 1333 FSB CPUs. Now that I think it will work, what is your question? Is it how to install a CPU? If so when you buy a new CPU there are instructions included in the box with pictures.

Thank you very much Major_A. One more thing I wonder is both of CPUs ( E7500 & E8400) is 45nm, so I dont know if it work??? 'Cuz, mine right now 65nm.

Hope you let me know. Thank you

Good question. Worst case scenario you will have to buy a new motherboard for your new CPU. And you can get a fairly good mATX board for pretty cheap.

Thank you very much... I'll check it out and let you know.

Have a good day.. bro