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Name: HydraFury
Date: August 5, 2004 at 20:17:05 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: 2.6 Celeron \ 2x 256mb 21
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Im planning to upgrade my motherboard but all the motherboards I see often say "Compatible with Pentium 4 processors up to 3.06GHz" or something like that. Is this true will the motherboard not support higher processors? I dont see any reason why it shouldnt support it as long as the socket is the same.



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Response Number 1
Name: capt
Date: August 5, 2004 at 20:54:15 Pacific
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Front side bus speed would be one limiting factor.


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Response Number 2
Name: StuartS
Date: August 5, 2004 at 21:46:11 Pacific
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Front side bus speed is nearly always the limiting factor but can also include multipliers and power requirements of the CPU.


Stuart


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Response Number 3
Name: HydraFury
Date: August 5, 2004 at 22:23:10 Pacific
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Well how high of a processor could i put in a motherboard with 800 FSB? Or am i asking the wrong question?


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Response Number 4
Name: HydraFury
Date: August 5, 2004 at 22:24:54 Pacific
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Also would it make sense to go with a socket 775 instead of a 478?


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Response Number 5
Name: HydraFury
Date: August 5, 2004 at 22:30:15 Pacific
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Sorry for all the question but i also wanted to ask wether or not there is a diffrence between LGA 755 and plain 755.


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Response Number 6
Name: blueverine
Date: August 5, 2004 at 22:45:44 Pacific
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Intel web site has a guide about choosing components.

Motherboard Selection Guide


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Response Number 7
Name: HydraFury
Date: August 5, 2004 at 23:09:32 Pacific
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Thanks it helped alot. I noticed that all the motherboards that came up had only one ide slot. I use 2 harddrives and 2 optical drives.
so how could i get more? is there a special cable with maybe 4 slots in it? or a way to add more slots?


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Response Number 8
Name: Avun
Date: August 6, 2004 at 07:54:14 Pacific
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You can get a PCI Card which has another IDE slot.

P4 2.6 Ghz
40 GB HD
256 MBs of DDR 333 RAM


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