Williamette core vs New motheboards

[Invisible]

Hi all,

I have a old Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz Willamette Core cpu. Couple days ago my motheboard died, and so I went ahead to purchase another motherboard at Fry's (MSI's PT880 Neo-FSR). I tried the motheboard with the cpu, no post screen. Swapped cpu and memory, same result.

Later I read the motherboard box and it says it supports northwood/prescott, so I am wondering if it supports the willamette core (backward compatible?)

If this board won't fit, which one should I get? People tell me that mobo that uses the Intel 865 chipset will work, but I want to make sure.

Please help.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Invisible on 12/09/04 09:53 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[o1die]

I have an msi 865pe board, and it doesn't support your willamette. Newegg has some Intel 845 refurb boards for about $20 that should work fine until you want to do a full upgrade. Otherwise, I would get one of the Fry's combo deals with board and cpu.

 

[Crashman]

Some 865 boards will run the Willy, others won't. Same applies to the 875. It's not a matter of chipset, but whether the manufacturer stuck with Intel's standard or went one better: Intel's VRM standard for the Prescott doesn't support the Willy, but some manufacturers have managed to support both.

Since this type of information started evaporating last year, I forgot what boards now support the Willy.

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[Invisible]

Since you said so, would it be the best to get the Intel board based on the Intel 865 Chipset then? (I suppose Intel's board will stick with their standard). Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks!

 

[Crashman]

Nope, because Intel is following the replaceable backplate standard everyone else does now. You'll actually have to look at photographs to determine which boards have the ports in standard locations, and the reason everybody is going non-standard is because the original standard didn't support such things as firewire ports, LAN, digital audio connectors, etc.

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