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Dec 27^th, 2003 at 5:42pm

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Hey guys,

I have a question I hope someone can answer, within the next 24 hours. I recently got an Intel Celeron 2.4GHz processor for Christmas, which I was definately chuffed about as you could imagine. The only problem is, that my motherboard could only handle a processor up to 1.6 GHz with a 370 Pin socket, the new one is for a 478 Pin socket. Here's the main question, would I be able to buy a motherboard that could fit that processor, my current Pentium 3 Ram, a PCI Graphics card, and an internal modem. And the next obvious question, how much do you think it would cost.

Cheers,
Greg

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Reply #1 - Dec 27^th, 2003 at 5:56pm

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Greg,
www.newegg.com has several mainboards that
would fit your needs. there's an asus board for $60.00
for the 478 socket. Check it out excellent site.

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Reply #2 - Dec 27^th, 2003 at 6:17pm

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Thanks for the quick reply stan, gonna check it out now.

Cheers,
Greg

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Reply #3 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 4:58pm

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Greg, I hope this isn't too late! ......

Bearing in mind I'm thinking long term here, I'd go & find the cheapest Intel "Springdale" chipset based Sct 478 motherboard you can afford - a cost of about £75 or so ,probably the same in U.S. $ ,I say this, as a Springdale chipset mobo will support your 2.6ghz Celeron (Which is 400fsb) whilst also supporting the later 533 and 800fsb Pentium 4's.
Putting it simply, the Springdale board will be easy to update to a later and faster P4.

I've recently upgraded from a 1.7 Celeron to a 1.8 P4, and the difference is staggering!

Ultimately, even a 2.6ghz Celeron will start to struggle, with a Springdale mobo, this will simply mean a straight CPU swap giving you a bigger gain in performance again, without the annoyance,not to mention expense of buying yet another motherboard!

I hope this makes some kind of logical sence! Roll Eyes

Pricey (about £90), but an Asus P4P 800 Delux (Springdale) is a superb board.....
http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4p800/overview.htm

Or, possibly a better bet if funds are tight, you could consider the £50 or so Asus P4S800
http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4s800/overview.htm This board isn't an Intel Springdale chipset, but it still has the 400/533/800fsb support I mentioned earlier.

If your in the U.K. (or not I suppose!) my local pc store are these guys, I could'nt recommend them highly enough to anybody.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/asus_intel_motherboards.html

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk For the home page.
Straight no-bull advice, something worth its weight in gold in the pc market IMHO!

Happy Shopping! Wink

Paul.

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Reply #4 - Jan 4^th, 2004 at 5:33pm

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Nope, it's not too late, still haven't been able to do anything. I live down in darkest Africa, Zimbabwe!!! My uncle is up from South Africa, and he's gonna try get me a motherboard from there. Does anyone know how much about 512Mb of Ram for P4's must cost, cause when I get a new motherboard, I obviously won't be able to use all my P3 Ram (768Mb) which is a real waste, it took about 2 years to collect all that Ram, which I then find out that I wouldn't be able to use with a faster processor! You can imaginehow pissed off I am. And I won't be able to afford anywhere near that amount of P4 Ram! Angry

Ah well, could always sell it, and use the proffit to save up for more P4 Ram.

Greg

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Reply #5 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 8:03am

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My favourite Springdale Chipset is also known as the "Intel 865PE Chipset".

There are plenty of good boards availabe using this chipset, I bought the Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro and it was cheap and fully featured.

http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-8IPE1000%20Pro.htm

You may be able to use your old RAM chips if they are DDR, but you really want 2 x 512mb PC3200 DDR Ram Modules (400mhz DDR), these 2 modules need to be identical and high quality to run the RAM effectively in Dual Channel mode on the Springdale mainboard.

Don't get too thrilled over the 2.4 ghz Celeron, it's still just a cheap and nasty CPU and the speed won't overcome the CPU's design limitations. A P4 CPU is expensive for a reason, it performs!

Well, now for the alternative advice...........

Try checking your mainboard manufacturers website to see if a BIOS upgrade on your present mainboard will enable you to use your 2.4ghz CPU. It's possible.

OR........ Get the cheapest mainboard you can that will fit the new CPU, as it isn't ever going to be a power system anyway.

Good Luck

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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