Pentium/Celeron M in plain 'ol S478 desktop board?

[Pluto]

Can a Socket 478 Pentium M or Celeron M (eg. SL8W2) be placed in a socket 478 board, or does it need to be designed for it?

Board I have is an Aopen MX4GR, latest BIOS is from 5/22/2003

chipset is 845G, supports 533mhz FSB

Thanks!

 

[Aluvus]

No. You need a "Socket 479" board, which will explicitly list support for the Pentium M. There are a few desktop boards available (I believe Aopen made one of the first, and Asus made an adapter to use the chips with certain Asus Socket 478 boards), though they tend to be not-cheap.

 

[The-Noid]

Abit has a great one. Search for Dothan Abit

 

[Pluto]

Yoxxy, you mean an adapter or board?

I dunno if you guys actually checked out the Intel spec for the SL8W2 but I'm a bit confused since it says 'Package Type 478 pin'

Wouldn't I need a 479 pin chip to work with one of these adapters? On the Intel Processor Spec Finder site you can choose from Package Type 478 pin, 479 pin, Micro-FCPGA, Micro-FCBGA

I found the Asus CT-479 adapter and you're right, it ain't cheap - $60+ OUCH

 

[f4phantom2500]

well, it's 478 pins, but one of them is offset to a different spot, so to avoid confusion motherboard manufacturers called those few, special pentium m desktop boards "socket 479" boards. trust me, i was in a similar situation in about August last year; i have an old hp laptop that had a desktop pentium 4 in it, and i found out that the pentium m was also 478 and wanted to get one for it, but went through what you're going through and found out that they aren't compatible.

 

[Pluto]

thats interesting, so why does Intel list separate parts for 478/479? very confusing....

 

[996GT2]

Socket 479 was designed for the first generation mobile Pentium M (and equivalent Celeron Ms), while 478 was designed for desktop use, initially fitting Willamette-based Pentium 4s, then Northwood-based models, and finally the early generation Prescotts (and their equivalent Celeron models). So, while the name might be the same, the two families of CPUs are not interchangeable...

Think of it like AMD's Socket 940 (for Opterons) and their AM2 socket. Both have 940 pins, but AM2 CPUs will not work in the original socket 940, and vice versa.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: 996GT2
Think of it like AMD's Socket 940 (for Opterons) and their AM2 socket. Both have 940 pins, but AM2 CPUs will not work in the original socket 940, and vice versa.

Yes, exactly like that.

 

[evolucion8]

Is possible to use Pentium/Celeron M on the good old Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, P4C800- E deluxe among other Asus mobos, you have to get the Asus CT-479 socket. I'm currently using that adapter with a 2.26GHz Dothan CPU and the gaming performance and desktop performance has been remarkably improved over my 3.4GHz Pentium 4 EE CPU. You can find that adapter on zipzoomfly.com and those mobos on eBay. The gaming performance is just astonishing, able to outpeform even the Athlon X2 4800 in most cases. The adapter is quite cheap, $51.00 bucks http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...jsp?ProductCode=372304 and I found the Pentium M Dothan in Ebay and cost me about 170 bucks, you can find Asus mobos in Ebay as little as 90 bucks. Probably with that money invested you can get a faster system, but is a matter of tastes.