upgrading my processor

I'm thinking about possible upgrading my processor and I was wondering what I could upgrade to without having to change anything else to support the new processor. Here is a copy of the system devices report of what I have now.
------------------System Devices------------------
Motherboard Name : M825VXX
Motherboard Manufacturer : ECS
BIOS Version : 07.00T
System BIOS Date : 05/13/03
Video BIOS Date : 11/13/02
CPU Identification : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
CPU Generic Name : x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1
CPU Vendor : Advanced Micro Devices
Serial Number : 0000-0681-0383-F9FF-0000-0000
CPU Frequency : 1800 MB
L1 Code Cache : 64K, 2-Way, 64 entrie
L1 Data Cache : 64K, 2-Way, 64 entrie
L2 Cache : 256K, 16-Way, 64 entrie
CPU Socket : Socket-A
Core Per Package : 1
Logical Per Core : 1
FPU - Floating point unit : Yes
VME - Virtual mode extension : Yes
DE - Debugging extensions : Yes
PSE - Page size extension : Yes
TSC - Time stamp counter : Yes
MSR - Machine specific registers : Yes
PAE - Physical address extension : Yes
MCE - Machine check extension : Yes
CX8 - CMPXCHG8 instrucion support : Yes
APIC - APIC : No
SEP - Fast system call (SYSENTER/SYSEXIT) : Yes
MTRR - Memory type range registers : Yes
PGE - Page global extension : Yes
CMOV - Conditional move support : Yes
PAT - Page attribute table : Yes
PSE36 - 36-bit page size extension : Yes
PSN - Processor serial number : No
CLFSH - CLFLUSH instruction support : No
DS - Debug trace store : No
ACPI - Thermal monitor and software controlled clock : No
MMX - MMX architecture support : Yes
FXSR - Fast floating point save (FXSAVE/FXRSTOR) : Yes
SSE - Streaming SIMD instruction support : Yes
SSE2 - Streaming SIMD extensions 2 : No
SS - Self snoop : No
HTT - Hyper-Threading technology : No
TM - Thermal monitor support : No
IA-64 - IA-64 Intel : No
SBF - Signal break on FERR : No
FPU - Floating point unit : Yes
VME - Virtual mode extension : Yes
DE - Debugging extensions : Yes
PSE - Page size extension : Yes
TSC - Time stamp counter : Yes
MSR - Machine specific registers : Yes
PAE - Physical address extension : Yes
MCE - Machine check extension : Yes
CX8 - CMPXCHG8 instrucion support : Yes
FPU - Floating point unit : Yes
VME - Virtual mode extension : Yes
DE - Debugging extensions : Yes
PSE - Page size extension : Yes
TSC - Time stamp counter : Yes
MSR - Machine specific registers : Yes
PAE - Physical address extension : Yes
MCE - Machine check extension : Yes
CX8 - CMPXCHG8 instrucion support : Yes
APIC - APIC : No
SEP - Fast system call (SYSENTER/SYSEXIT) : Yes
MTRR - Memory type range registers : Yes
PGE - Page global extension : Yes
CMOV - Conditional move support : Yes
PAT - Page attribute table : Yes
PSE36 - 36-bit page size extension : Yes
PSN - Processor serial number : No
CLFSH - CLFLUSH instruction support : No
DS - Debug trace store : No
ACPI - Thermal monitor and software controlled clock : No
MMX - MMX architecture support : Yes
FXSR - Fast floating point save (FXSAVE/FXRSTOR) : Yes
SSE - Streaming SIMD instruction support : Yes
SSE2 - Streaming SIMD extensions 2 : No
SS - Self snoop : No
FPU - Floating point unit : Yes
VME - Virtual mode extension : Yes
FPU - Floating point unit : Yes
VME - Virtual mode extension : Yes
DE - Debugging extensions : Yes
PSE - Page size extension : Yes
TSC - Time stamp counter : Yes
MSR - Machine specific registers : Yes
PAE - Physical address extension : Yes

 

Unless you plan to do the job yourself it is not a worthy consideration and will actually cost more than buying a New budget box, e.g.:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119039

It would cost you more in labour than it would to buy something that is far superior.

The most common theme I "fix" with older PC's is the RAM, they have 256MB and are trying to run XP, they need 2GB....the CPU has nothing to do with the bottleneck. Your report shows nothing about the RAM onboard.

Can you please do "windows+r" keys (or the "run console") and type in dxdiag from here we will clearly see how much RAM you have:

 

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.101209-1647)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: ECS
System Model: M825VXX
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 736MB RAM Page File: 235MB used, 3767MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode

Thanks for repling , let me know if there is more info that you need.

 

There's not much that you could upgrade to with that processor that you would notice the difference. That's a 9 year old machine that I personally wouldn't touch as 768MB is good enough IMHO even though 2GB might help.

 

Humour me by running the following for shits and giggles (lets remove crap):
CCleaner: http://majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Slim_d4191.html

Give an indicator after that.

 

Ok I just finished running CCleaner. You want me to let you know how its running after a while? Oh before I forget Thanks for replying and giving me the info I asked for. Also I like your picture.

 

Basically running CCleaner and defragging HDD's etc is as far as I would go with that system and may give you a bit of a performance hit without any hardware changes.

 

Thanks again for the info, I have one more question. I have been using Glary Utilities so isn't it the same or similar to CCleaner?

 

I don't use that because I don't understand what it does. Some of "these" wonderful "system care" suites can cause more problems than benefits.

The picture is of Aquila audax (Eagle Bold) a.k.a The Wedge Tailed Eagle, Australia's largest bird of prey.

 

Thanks again and the next time I have a question that I get you to help again.