[SOLVED] Max CPU for mPGA478MT

[2017davidwade]

What is the max cpu under socket M mPGA478MT.

 

[k1114]

Intel Core 2 Duo T7600G but having the same socket does not mean the mobo is compatible. There's also heatsink cooling limitations in laptops. And it's a waste of money because it's so old. A new $50 tablet would outperform it.

 

[2017davidwade]

Cool mine isn't a laptop nore is it slow on 2.33ghz dual. Not for what I use it for. Quad Quadros GPUs ect. Thanks for the info

 

[InvalidError]

That would be Northwood and first-gen Prescott Pentium 4.

Netburst is Intel's worst architecture ever and got destroyed performance-wise by Core2 some 12 years ago. Not worth upgrading to anything IMO unless you can get the CPU for free and even then, that computer is going to be far more effective as a space heater than doing much useful work.

Even the slowest current desktop chips would be ~10X as fast as the fastest CPU that ever existed on PGA478 while using 1/3 as much power.

 

[k1114]

I think you got the wrong socket then. You listed socket M which is a laptop socket but if it's a desktop, then it's socket 478 (mPGA478) or socket P (mPGA478MN). They're all 478 pins so can all be listed as mPGA478 depending on where you look but they're not the same. If you give your current cpu model, then it would be simple to look up.