what to do with socket 478 P3 (not 4)?

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Lazn_Work

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Well I have a SL5CL socket 478 mobile P3 at work from a dead laptop. (voltage regulators on MB died, so CPU should be fine)

I was wondering what I should do with it. It is 1.2ghz and has 512k of cache, so it is a hot little CPU, if not the greatest in the world. http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/list.asp?procfam=55

I don't have another laptop with the same socket (otherwise I would use it to upgrade that one) and I am quite sure that it will not work in a P4 socket 478 MB.

Do I just keep it around incase I get another laptop with the same socket? Or just get rid of it and forget about it?

==>Lazn
 
Lazn_Work said:
Well I have a SL5CL socket 478 mobile P3 at work from a dead laptop. (voltage regulators on MB died, so CPU should be fine)

I was wondering what I should do with it. It is 1.2ghz and has 512k of cache, so it is a hot little CPU, if not the greatest in the world. http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/list.asp?procfam=55

I don't have another laptop with the same socket (otherwise I would use it to upgrade that one) and I am quite sure that it will not work in a P4 socket 478 MB.

Do I just keep it around incase I get another laptop with the same socket? Or just get rid of it and forget about it?

==>Lazn
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hmmmm I only thought they came in socket 370.. learned something new today
 
what??! I didn't know they had socket 478 pin P3's.

I don't think it will work, b/c P4's have a quad pumped bus.
P3's didn't. So I don't think it would be compatible.

P.S. what chipset did the motherboard have? 815 ?
 
OOC, what package is that mobile P3 in? is it FCPGA-2 or one of those weird TCPs?
 
nylint said:
OOC, what package is that mobile P3 in? is it FCPGA-2 or one of those weird TCPs?
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It says Intel micro-FCPGA.

512kb cache... only Tualatin had 512kb right? Coppermine was 256?

Too bad its only for SDRAM SO-DIMMS :(
 
Most Tualatins had 256k. Only the PIII-S (and apparently the mobile PIII) had 512k.

that's a nice little chip. hope you find something to run it in.
 
Lazn_Work said:
Intel 830 chipset.

http://support.gateway.com/support/manlib/Notebooks/Solo1450/8508703/8508703.htm

==>Lazn
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Gateway Support said:
Processor side bus
133 MHz processor side bus
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Thats 133. (with no quad pump)

Its going to incompatible with anything but maybe another 830 chipset motherboard. Maybe you can buy an old used laptop (with a broken screen or other problem) cheap and build a SFF computer or something with it.

But, I'd probably just put the chip on ebay and see what you can get for it.
 
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