Any trouble with P4m and desktop motherboards ???

[Soulkeeper]

just wondering if I would have any problem dropping a 1.8 P4m in a P4 desktop motherboard ?

 

[THUGSROOK]

what board?

 

[Mingon]

I have tried 1.4 (x2) 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 without any troubles in 845, 865pe and 8875 boards as well as 645 sis boards

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah I havn't decided if I want to get a cheap i845 board or spring for the 875 and spend a bit more
I will most likely go abit either way

but yeah I got a 1.8ghz P4m northwood think 400fsb version
I will be overclocking this thing if i do get a motherboard for it

 

[Nyquest007]

has anyone tried oc'ing the new centrino; on a destop mobo? I heard that it's performance at the lower clock match that of higher clocked P4's. If that's true, wonder what one oc'd could do?

 

[Mingon]

The centrino wont fit into a desktop board - unless you buy it from powerleap with an adaptor

The p4 1.8m's dont see, to be that good overclockers - I could hit the same speed with my 1.4m which is around 2.7-2.8ghz. I have another p4 2.0m coming soon - hoping for 3.0ghz as its an 02' chip

 

[Soulkeeper]

well as long as it runs I will consider any overclock a bonus
too bad I won't have HT tho (just to mess with it)

I might hold off a bit longer

or just get an i845 board for like 80 bucks

i like the feature set on the 875 boards tho

i'll prob be getting the Thermalright SP-94 and a nice 4800rpm variable speed fan


thanks all

 

[Mingon]

Youll hit 210fsb no problem for 2.52ghz of the 6 chips all have managed that, let us know your results. Last thing to check is that the heatsink sits properly on the top, as the chip is about 1-2mm smaller some heatsinks dont contact, I use a heatspreader from a k6-2 with good results.

 

[Mingon]

well my 2.0ghz pentium 4 laptop cpu seems a good overclocker. 250fsb / 3.0ghz at 1.8v - probably needs less vcore, but I want stability might try for faster. Memory is running at 200mhz but I am getting 5300mb/s in sansoft!

3.2ghz boots but crashes on sandrasoft at 1.95v 3.1ghz (258.3fsb) at 1.825 is OK.
some sandrasoft number;

cpu arithmetic alu 7920
whetstone 1780/4058
integer 12318
float 15544
ram int buff 5499
float buff 5483

Not too shabby for a $100 (£60) chip the only problem is I have ordered a msi k7d and 2 x 2500+ and so this rig is gonna get sold