Tell me i´m dreaming

[XZezin]

Since I bought my rig, a P4 2.8C socket 478 Northwood in a Abit IC7-G, Intel did nothing but to kick my nutz, it was socket LGA775, DDR2, and PCIe, altogether, killing every single hope of upgrade I could ever have, now, while browsing through newegg.com I see this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819111178

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819111179

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819111180

Hey, call me noob, but I have to ask: Is it my first glance at a possible upgrade or it`s a mistake, or my 875 chipset won`t handle it? The only reason I ask is that I remember a article here at Tom´s where a pentium M Dothan with a adaptor to run at socket 478, in a asus P4C800 could do some damage at all mighty AMD.

 

[XZezin]

I highly doubt that the 875 chip will run it. I don't think it supports it.

Maybe with a BIOS update?? After all, the 875 shouldn`t run the Dothan Pentium M right?

I´m so excited because theese chips see a great benefit from Dual Channel Memory since at least the Dothans ran on single channel only for the sake of power consuption, and I have two OCZ EL Series DRR466 under the hood.

 

[mpjesse]

As you have already observed, this is the mobile version of Socket 478. Yes, adapters are made from Pentium M mobile to plain 'ole desktop variety Socket 478.

However, like prozac said, I doubt a dual core Pentium M (in this case, the yonah) would run on an 875 based chipset. It possible the 875 might support dual core, but no one's made any BIOS updates for it that I know of. And I don't think anyone ever will.

I did read something about intel bringing back a version of the i865 for lga775 and it having dual core support. But from what I understand it would only be for wierd market segments- nothing mainstream.

If I were you I'd just quit thinking about it. No sense in getting your hopes up.

-mpjesse

 

[crizazykid2]

Yes, sir!

YOU ARE DREAMING :lol:

 

[luminaris]

I don't think it will run it as the Yonah power requirements are more than likely alot lower than what your board puts out. I could be wrong though

 

[Crashman]

I don't think it will run it as the Yonah power requirements are more than likely alot lower than what your board puts out. I could be wrong though

Oh, you're definately wrong about the power requirements being a possible cause for failure: You must not have read the voltage, 1.25v-1.40v for the first processor he listed, about the same voltage range as most Prescotts.

And if you thought it was amperage rather than voltage that would be the problem, you'd better check on some basic electric theory: You can't have "too much amperage" at the correct voltage.