socket 478 northwood...prescott?

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Phranq

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There are motherboards out there that are saying, well on newegg it says Socket 478 CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4 Prescott/Celeron....there are none that say P4 Northwood, but will it work anyway? Shouldn't any socket 478 fit and work? Or am I missing something.
 
ok um get a mobo for 478 that can support presscott it should be able to work with northwood
 
Phranq said:
There are motherboards out there that are saying, well on newegg it says Socket 478 CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4 Prescott/Celeron....there are none that say P4 Northwood, but will it work anyway? Shouldn't any socket 478 fit and work? Or am I missing something.
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Most socket 478 boards currently@ Newegg will work with 533FSB, 800FSB processors either Celeron, Northwood, Prescott.

Sure Northwood will work.

Which Northwood do you have?

gl :)
 
I'm pretty sure it's 400fsb, it's not mine or i'd look...2.4ghz northwood 400mhz fsb.
 
Northwood, 400MHz FSB, 512KB L2 Cache 2.4GHz .

If it is that one Phranq , then that requires an older 845 chipset, not avalible @the Egg

Any speed where both a 400Mhz FSB and 533Mhz FSB CPU overlap, the 533Mhz FSB

CPU gets a B after the speed so that the 2.4Ghz Northwood CPUs come in 2.4 and 2.4B varieties.

If it's a Northwood 533Mhz FSB or " 2.4B " : then you can use, just for an example, a

spec sheet from the 865PE chipsets avalible @ Newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131484#DetailSpecs

Clear as mud right :p

gl
 
Peach said:
I think the 2.4a is a prescott, because i have a 2.8a prescott.
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You're right on there Peach. The 2.4A and 2.8A GHz are Prescott Core, @ 533MHz FSB.

gl :)
 
Papa-Ming said:
You're right on there Peach. The 2.4A and 2.8A GHz are Prescott Core, @ 533MHz FSB.

gl :)
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So what is a 2.4 nothwood at 400FSB? Friggin Intel and their screwy naming scheme.
 
yeah 1.6a - 2.0a (are Northwoods with 400FSB)

But 2.4a & 2.8a are 533FSB Prescotts.

2.4b & 2.8b's are Northwoods with 533FSB

2.4C, 2.6C, 2.8C, 3.0C, 3.2C, 3.4C are all Northwoods with 800FSB & HT

2.8E, 3.0E, 3.2E, 3.4E are Prescott with 800FSB & HT

2.66, 2.53 are Northwoods 533FSB

3.06Ghz are usually Northoods with 533FSB and HT, but I've seen SL specs posted for a Prescott version though I've never seen one.
 
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