CPU & videocard Upgrade questions

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Hé people,

A CPU FSB 400MHz Willamette is working on a FSB 100MHz MOBO, but is a CPU
(Northwood) with FSB 533MHz going to work?

Greetz
 
Hé people,

A CPU FSB 400MHz Willamette is working on a FSB 100MHz MOBO, but is a CPU
(Northwood) with FSB 533MHz going to work?
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It depends on what motherboard you have. If you post
motherboard details such as make, model, and any other
information available, it may help us determine this.
 
kony said:
It depends on what motherboard you have. If you post
motherboard details such as make, model, and any other
information available, it may help us determine this.
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Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Model : MS-6534
Chipset Model: 845 Brookdale Host-Hub Interface Bridge (A3-step)
Chipset Vendor: Intel Corporation

CPU: Intel Pentium 4
CPU socket: Socket 478
Processor Upgrade: ZIF Socket
Max CPU speed: 2400 MHz
 
Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Model : MS-6534
Chipset Model: 845 Brookdale Host-Hub Interface Bridge (A3-step)
Chipset Vendor: Intel Corporation

CPU: Intel Pentium 4
CPU socket: Socket 478
Processor Upgrade: ZIF Socket
Max CPU speed: 2400 MHz
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I am not certain of that particular board but in general an
845 chipset board will run a Northwood with 100MHz clocked
(400 so-called Intel MHz) FSB. What is the fastest CPU with
only 100MHz FSB? Used to be 2.0GHz but now maybe 2.4 or
2.6GHz.
 
kony said:
I am not certain of that particular board but in general an
845 chipset board will run a Northwood with 100MHz clocked
(400 so-called Intel MHz) FSB. What is the fastest CPU with
only 100MHz FSB? Used to be 2.0GHz but now maybe 2.4 or
2.6GHz.
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The fastest CPU for this MOBO -> Intel Pentium4 2,8 GHz 400 MHz FSB
Northwood L2 cache 512.
Bottleneck will be sdram 133 mhz. Intel Celeron got to 2,9 GHz but with 256
L2 cache.
 
The fastest CPU for this MOBO -> Intel Pentium4 2,8 GHz 400 MHz FSB
Northwood L2 cache 512.
Bottleneck will be sdram 133 mhz. Intel Celeron got to 2,9 GHz but with 256
L2 cache.
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I suppose I had assumed it was a DDR (mem) based board,
since some do run DDR memory. It would probably be best to
not upgrade the CPU then, the PC133 memory is too much
bottleneck for good bang per buck benefit. Obviously then
best to replace the motherboard and memory first.
 
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