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Quick dumb question pls help

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Ron1jed

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I just bought a MS-6743 MOBO and I was wondering if I could fit a older 1 gig p4 chip in there as long as its socket 478?

says it suports 533mhz or 800mhz front side bus. But i dout that this 1 gig has a FSB of that...... so probly won't work right?
 
Ron1jed said:
I just bought a MS-6743 MOBO and I was wondering if I could fit a older 1 gig p4 chip in there as long as its socket 478?
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the slowest p4 they make is 1.3GHZ not gig look at the voltage theres the northwoods and some other core they both have the same amount of pins just diff core and core voltage.
 
1.6 would be the lowest i beleive and even still it would have to be a 1.6a chip

the reason behind this is the original p4's actualled used 423pins it wasnt until the northwood core that they made the move to 478pin

and id still be leary as there are both Socket 423 and socket 478 cores in the 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 speeds. I beleive the original chip was called the willemot(could be spelt wrong) aside from a different package size they were also slow as hell and only ran off a 400mhz FSB to the best of my knowledge.
 
those were williamette core p4's... they ain't gonna fit.
and gig means gigabyte, not ghz, lol.
 
Ron1jed said:
I just bought a MS-6743 MOBO and I was wondering if I could fit a older 1 gig p4 chip in there as long as its socket 478?

says it suports 533mhz or 800mhz front side bus. But i dout that this 1 gig has a FSB of that...... so probly won't work right?
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Probably not. What I'd suggest doing, is contacting MSI (I'm assuming that is who makes that board). That's what I always do if I am not sure.


Better to be safe than sorry.
 
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