So just what have I got here, and what can I do with it?

[mike]

My friend's 2 year old laptop just died (bad motherboard, not
replaceable says the local tech service), and she gave it to me to see
what I can salvage out of it.
The CPU is what I'm curious about, and whether I can salvage it for
a new computer. It is Intel, Socket 478. On the top is says: Pentium
4, 3.06GHZ/512/533, SL6PG MALAY.
I'm presuming its a Mobile Pentium 4, with the above numbers
indicating speed, cache size and bus speed.
My question is whether I can pop this guy into any socket 478
motherboard and build an inexpensive desktop around it.
I've homebuilt a few computers in the past, last one about 2 years
ago and I've always used AMD processors, so I'm a little out of date
and pretty ignorant about Intel. Please hold off the flames and help
bring me up to speed.
TIA,
Mike

 

[Ghostrider]

My friend's 2 year old laptop just died (bad motherboard, not
replaceable says the local tech service), and she gave it to me to see
what I can salvage out of it.
The CPU is what I'm curious about, and whether I can salvage it for
a new computer. It is Intel, Socket 478. On the top is says: Pentium
4, 3.06GHZ/512/533, SL6PG MALAY.
I'm presuming its a Mobile Pentium 4, with the above numbers
indicating speed, cache size and bus speed.
My question is whether I can pop this guy into any socket 478
motherboard and build an inexpensive desktop around it.
I've homebuilt a few computers in the past, last one about 2 years
ago and I've always used AMD processors, so I'm a little out of date
and pretty ignorant about Intel. Please hold off the flames and help
bring me up to speed.
TIA,
Mike

Here's the information about this processor:

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL6PG

It's just a plain, OEM Socket 478 CPU with a CPU speed of
3.06 GHz. Still pretty good, with the right motherboard and
1 GB of RAM for Windows XP.

 

[Rod Speed]

My friend's 2 year old laptop just died (bad motherboard,
not replaceable says the local tech service), and she
gave it to me to see what I can salvage out of it.

The CPU is what I'm curious about, and whether I can salvage it
for a new computer. It is Intel, Socket 478. On the top is says:
Pentium 4, 3.06GHZ/512/533, SL6PG MALAY.

I'm presuming its a Mobile Pentium 4,

Nope, just P4.

with the above numbers indicating speed, cache size and bus speed.
Yep.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sspec=sl6pg

My question is whether I can pop this guy into any socket 478
motherboard and build an inexpensive desktop around it.
Yep.

I've homebuilt a few computers in the past, last one about
2 years ago and I've always used AMD processors, so
I'm a little out of date and pretty ignorant about Intel.

The cpu will likely just hold its nose and carry on regardless.

Please hold off the flames

Where's the fun in that ?

and help bring me up to speed.

Down, boy.