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P4 Socket 478 upgrade?

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feverlax

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I have a Socket 478 mPGA northwood P4 2.0 GHz proccessor in my dell dimension 8200, 400 MHz fsb. I have been looking to get something that would be somewhat faster. Any recomendations? On buy.com they listed a Core Duo as a socket 478, is that possible? This is the link:http://www.buy.com/prod/Intel_Core_...Yonah_667MHz_FSB_2MB/q/loc/101/202189330.html

would it work in my system? would it be worth the upgrade?

there are a couple other options on newegg, like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116175

How about this? would it work?

the last question is, would it even be worth the upgrade from my processor to any of these.

edit: i forgot to add that the mobo is an intel i850E
 
No Core Duo is socket 479 (mobile socket)

There's also Core 2 Duo's for the mobile platform (Merom) but those won't work either. How about just throwing it away and getting a whole new computer! :eek:

j/k

but the fastest processor you can PROBABLY put in there is a 3.06Ghz HT , 533FSB, Northwood (512kb of cache), not Prescott (1mb of L2 cache).
 
Thanks, I would love to get rid of it, buti just put about 300 dollars into it for RAM, a new vid card, and another HDD, so I've been looking for a new processor to give it a little extra performance boost, and since i saw that the processor on newegg was 70 bucks i figured, what the hell, might as well give it a shot.
 
First of all that prescott WILL NOT work with an i850 chipset.

Second of all that is a 400Mhz FSB (Quad Pumped of course) MB. Even if it did support that Prescott, you would be running it at 15x100 or 1.5Ghz.

I believe the fastest processor released for socket 478 with the 400 bus was a 2.4.

You could check ebay, but honestly its not worth the money to upgrade it.

I dont even think the 3.06 would work if he is using PC-800 RDRAM.
 
Spazilton said:
First of all that prescott WILL NOT work with an i850 chipset.

Second of all that is a 400Mhz FSB (Quad Pumped of course) MB. Even if it did support that Prescott, you would be running it at 15x100 or 1.5Ghz.

I believe the fastest processor released for socket 478 with the 400 bus was a 2.4.

You could check ebay, but honestly its not worth the money to upgrade it.

I dont even think the 3.06 would work if he is using PC-800 RDRAM.
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There are two 3 GHz and faster CPUs he could choose from: P4 3.0C (Northwood-C) and P4 3.2E (Prescott), with the Northwood (not Prescott) being the better choice (due to Prescott's heat issues in S478). I have a 2.6 Northwood-C teamed with DDR400 (clocked bone-stock); however, the motherboard chipset is the real issue (specifically the RDRAM support). With what he'd be forced to spend in additional upgrades, it would make more sense to go with a budget dual-core upgrade instead, even though he would need new RAM.
 
If your board support FSB533, then look for a P4 3.06. If it only supports FSB400, then the fastest you can run is probably a 2.8. There were 2.8ghz P4's that ran on FSB400, SL7EY. It will probably be hard to find, there are a few on eBay right now. Keep in mind that the 3.06 will have HT and will be much easier to find.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL7EY
 
PGHammer said:
There are two 3 GHz and faster CPUs he could choose from: P4 3.0C (Northwood-C) and P4 3.2E (Prescott), with the Northwood (not Prescott) being the better choice (due to Prescott's heat issues in S478). I have a 2.6 Northwood-C teamed with DDR400 (clocked bone-stock); however, the motherboard chipset is the real issue (specifically the RDRAM support). With what he'd be forced to spend in additional upgrades, it would make more sense to go with a budget dual-core upgrade instead, even though he would need new RAM.
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Look at original post he is on RDRAM. Sorry no RDRAM system that I am aware of will support the 800FSB processors. The only chance he has is if it truly is an i850E chipset, then he could go with the 3.06/533/HT, however he would still need to upgrade to 1066 RDRAM. Not a cheap option.
 
yeah get the p4 3.06 with hyper threading and your 533mhz FSB.

It'll be a plenty nice upgrade that you'll feel in gaming. If you don't game then you won't notice the upgrade too much.
 
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