CAN I UPGRADE???

[Alex]

I have an Asus P4b533-E Motherboard with a Socket 478 2 GHz processor. Does
anyone know if I can upgrade the processor on this board? I've been
searching on the net but can't find this info.

Thanks for your help.

Alexandra

 

[KC Computers]

I have an Asus P4b533-E Motherboard with a Socket 478 2 GHz processor.
Does anyone know if I can upgrade the processor on this board? I've been
searching on the net but can't find this info.

According to ASUS's web site, your P4B533-E S478 board can be upgraded
to 533Mhz 512k cache CPUs. The fastest one made was a 3.06Ghz.
S478 CPUs have been discontinued so they have been hard to find.
We are a dealer and the fastest speed ones that our suppliers still have
are 2.53GHz. Inquire for more details.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

See http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us. I'd
give a direct link to the page, but the Asus site is not set up that way.

The fastest CPU that Asus recommends for the board is the P4 3.06 with a 533
MHz FSB (front side bus). (Incidentally, it's the only 533 MHz P4 CPU that I
recall supports hyperthreading.)

As another poster remarked, you may have trouble finding one. If you try for
a slower CPU, make sure that it's still a "Northwood" chip (512 kB L2
cache). The ones with 1 MB L2 cache are "Prescott" CPUs, and they are not
supported.

If the best CPU that you can find is a 2.53 GHz one, I doubt that's a
worthwhile upgrade.

If it was my own system, and the gods of overclocking smiled, I'd probably
be running the P4 2.0 GHz CPU at 20X133 MHz (2.66 GHz). That's not a
life-altering improvement, but it would give 87% of the performance of the
fastest CPU available for the machine (the 3.06).


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