gravy Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 so i am getting an Abit IC7-G motherboard in a few days, will be a few weeks before i can afford the 2.8E 800Mhz prescott and was hoping to use my socket 478 celeron 2.0a in that motherboard until then anyone tried this? the abit site shows support for 800/533/400 cpu's, but monarch's site says 800/533, no 400Mhz support...... would it hurt to try, seems that the worst thing that could happen is it just wouldn't post Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
airman Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 i have a feeling that if it supports an 800mhz bus, then it should support anything lower than that? not sure tho. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP24 Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 I am under the impression that the 848/845 chipset is the only socket 478 that supports the Celeron. I could be wrong, though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DECwakeboarder Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 I would like to believe that if it runs at 800 and 533 then it shouldn't have a problem with 400, but that's just my guess Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravy Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 well, intel's site says it supports northwood socket 478 90nm cpu's or cpu's on the .13nm process running 400/533/800Mhz, including the prescott core cpu's considering my celly is nothing but a northwood .13nm cpu that didn't quite make the cut and had to be neutered down to 128k L2 cache, it should work just like it's P4 2.0A cousin, just slower Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 it WILL work. however there is one small catch to it. the 865 and 875 chipsets will automatically dumb down 400mhz ram to a max of 533 with a 100/133mhz cpu (aka celeron). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 it WILL work. however there is one small catch to it. the 865 and 875 chipsets will automatically dumb down 400mhz ram to a max of 533 with a 100/133mhz cpu (aka celeron). You mean 333 don't you? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted October 24, 2004 Posted October 24, 2004 yup, you're right. my bad there. it's been a LONG day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP24 Posted October 24, 2004 Posted October 24, 2004 Oh, I guess I was wrong. Learn something new everyday, eh? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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