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celeron board upGrading question
hello,
can a motherBoard that comes w/ a celeron chip be upgraded to a p4? if so does anyone know any specifics the board (brand etc) THANKS! |
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:04:48 -0400, Tanya
wrote: hello, can a motherBoard that comes w/ a celeron chip be upgraded to a p4? if so does anyone know any specifics the board (brand etc) That's a definite "maybe", it would depend on just what board you've got. There are hundreds (thousands?) of boards out there capable of holding a Celeron, and all except a very few are capable of holding at least some types of P4 chips. There are two specs to check out with this board: 1. What bus speed does it support? The Celeron chips use a 400MT/s bus speed, P4's are available with 400MT/s, 533MT/s and 800MT/s bus speeds. Higher bus speed, as you might guess, translates to higher performance, often even more so than the actual clock speed of the processor (ie a P4 "2.4C GHz" chip running at an 800MT/s bus speed will almost always be faster than a P4 2.53GHz chip running at a 533MT/s bus speed). If your motherboard came with any documentation at all it should list what bus speeds it supports. If not you should be able to look up this information on the website of the company that made the board. 2. How much power can the board deliver to the processor? This is a slightly trickier question to answer, and it usually won't be well documented. Faster processors require more power, and the motherboard has to be designed to deliver that power to the processor. This is particularly important for the latest and not-always-greatest revision of the P4, usually called the "Prescott" (vs. the older "Northwood"). Prescott P4 chips are currently sold with either the letter 'E' or the letter 'A' after their clock speed, ie a "P4 3.2GHz" chip is a Northwood while a "P4 3.2E GHz" is a Prescott. While internally these two revisions of the P4 are VERY different, from an end-user point of view the only difference is that the Prescott requires more power. Anyway, as you can probably guess, the simple answer to your question is "yes, you probably can upgrade that Celeron processor to a P4", however that leads to the much more complicated question of just which P4's will work on the board and which ones will not. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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Tony Hill wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:04:48 -0400, Tanya wrote: hello, can a motherBoard that comes w/ a celeron chip be upgraded to a p4? if so does anyone know any specifics the board (brand etc) That's a definite "maybe", it would depend on just what board you've got. There are hundreds (thousands?) of boards out there capable of holding a Celeron, and all except a very few are capable of holding at least some types of P4 chips. There are two specs to check out with this board: 1. What bus speed does it support? The Celeron chips use a 400MT/s bus speed, P4's are available with 400MT/s, 533MT/s and 800MT/s bus speeds. Higher bus speed, as you might guess, translates to higher performance, often even more so than the actual clock speed of the processor (ie a P4 "2.4C GHz" chip running at an 800MT/s bus speed will almost always be faster than a P4 2.53GHz chip running at a 533MT/s bus speed). If your motherboard came with any documentation at all it should list what bus speeds it supports. If not you should be able to look up this information on the website of the company that made the board. 2. How much power can the board deliver to the processor? This is a slightly trickier question to answer, and it usually won't be well documented. Faster processors require more power, and the motherboard has to be designed to deliver that power to the processor. This is particularly important for the latest and not-always-greatest revision of the P4, usually called the "Prescott" (vs. the older "Northwood"). Prescott P4 chips are currently sold with either the letter 'E' or the letter 'A' after their clock speed, ie a "P4 3.2GHz" chip is a Northwood while a "P4 3.2E GHz" is a Prescott. While internally these two revisions of the P4 are VERY different, from an end-user point of view the only difference is that the Prescott requires more power. Anyway, as you can probably guess, the simple answer to your question is "yes, you probably can upgrade that Celeron processor to a P4", however that leads to the much more complicated question of just which P4's will work on the board and which ones will not. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca Tony, many thanks for the reply and all of the info! greatly appreciated! sincerely Tanya |
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