Processor just a simple question. i was wondering what i can upgrade my processor to if i have a: 1 GB, 2666MHz, AMD Athlon xo 2000+ (1.67 GHZ) processor on a Compaq Presario S3000nx. some simple suggestions would be nice. thanks and have a nice day.

Your machine is very short of power required for win 10, I would like to see at least 8 GB ram, and a faster processor, yours is at the bottom of tests. Perhaps you should look at a new machine with win 10 installed. You cannot upgrade xp to win 10. You will have to purchase a win 10 license, you missed the free upgrade period.

go to giga web site then download spec of board it will tell you the fast the board will go

Hi.

The motherboard has an athlon xp socket, so you can upgrade your processor to an Athlon xp 2800+, that will give you a boost from 2.0 ghz to 2.250 ghz.

The motherboard can accept ddr333 type ram, to a max of 3 gb's of ram.

The ram increase will probably provide you with a better performance boost than the processor will, and it is most likely alot cheaper as well.

I hope this helps you out, and have a good day.

Most probably your hardware ie graphic card do not support software requirements.

Autocad 2009 system requirements for Win XP.
32-bit AutoCAD 2009
Running under Windows XP:
•Microsoft Windows XP SP2 operating system
•Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or AMD Athlon®, 2.2 GHz or greater
or
Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater
•1 GB RAM
•750 MB free hard disk space for installation
•1024x768 VGA with true color
•Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1 or higher)
If you are using AutoCAD for 3D modeling, you should bump up your system as follows:
•Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3.0 GHz or greater
or
Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz or greater
•2 GB RAM or greater
•2 GB of additional free hard disk space
•1,280 x 1,024 32-bit color video display adapter (true color) 128 MB or greater, OpenGL or Direct3D capable workstation class graphics card.

Hope it helps.

There is a full list of AMD 64 processors at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Athlon_64_microprocessors.

The Socket of your CPU is 754 which means that the highest you can go is to a 3400+ at 2.4GHz.

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Thanks.

You can put in bigger processor, Any AMD Athlon or Sempron will do.

If you are planning to run big games, then I suggest you get

- A new motherboard with PCI Express 2.0 support
- A new processor
- A new graphics card (maybe 512 MB or 1 GB) with DirectX 11 hardware support and Shader Model 5

You may make that DirectX 10 or 10.1 and Shader 4 if you want to reduce cost.

You have a wonderful machine and it should not be giving any problem. Are you currently facing any specific problem such that you need to maximize its performance. Well there is Hardware solution for that. You could try to tweak its performance by using the software-- Advanced System Optimizer 2.2 or 2.2 available for download(free) from uTorrent or Limewire....sodeep

heres more info on the game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis

Operating System - Windows XP or Windows Vista
CPU Minimum - 2.8 GHz or faster for XP, 3.2 GHz or faster for Vista

cpu Recommended - Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+

Memory - 1 GB RAM for XP, 1.5 GB RAM for Vista
Recommended - 2 GB RAM

Hard Drive Space - 12 GB of free space

Minimum Graphics Hardware - 256 MB video memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater

Recommended - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB or ATI 2900XT 512MB

Sound Hardware DirectX 9.0c compliant card

Design ATX form factor 4 layers PCB size: 30.5x24.4cm Chipset VIA KT266A/VT8233A Chipset CPU Socket Support AMD Athlon 700MHz∼1.4GHz processor Support AMD Athlon XP 1500+ 2600+ processor Support AMD Duron 600MHz 1.3GHz processor Support 200MHz/266MHz (Double Data Rate) Front Side Bus frequency processors Reserves support for future AMD processors 2600+ is the highest it will go. http://www.machspeed.com/manuals/VIPER/V266B.pdf page 3