Can I use a 478 pin Celeron in this motherboard?

[reitz]

I've got a Via P4XB-R motherboard that's been gathering dust for a few months. Now that I've got a little extra cash, I'd like to finally take out that POS Microstar board and smash it into little tiny peices. I need a cpu first, though, and I've never dealt with an Intel-based platform before.

The manual that came with the board only mentions that it supports the 478 pin P4, as do Via's website and the technical specs on every vendor's site I've looked at. There is a pretty big price difference between the Celeron and the P4, so I was hoping I might be able to save myself a couple bucks. Are the Pentium and Celeron still interchangeable?

What is the performance difference between equivalently clocked P4 and Celeron chips? Or a P4 1.7 and a Celeron 2.0?

 

[Rand]

BIOS revision 0MJ supports the Socket478 Celeron processors, said BIOS is the latest revision earlier BIOS revisions only supported the P4 Northwood.

As for the performance difference between the P4 and Celeron.... absolutely massive to say the least. The Celeron makes the much maligned P4 Willamette seem like a speed demon.

From the reviews I've seen the Celeron overclocked to 3GHz performs a notch better then a stock P4 1.8A. Needless to say it's definitely preferable to get even the P4 1.6A over any Celeron if at all possible.

 

[reitz]

Needless to say it's definitely preferable to get even the P4 1.6A over any Celeron if at all possible.

Cool, that's the chip I just picked up in the FS/T forum. Not being very familiar with the Intel chips (every machine I've built has used AMD up until now) I was taken by the "speed" difference. I suppose the price difference between the 2.0 Ghz Celeron and P4 should have tipped me off...

Now I just have to wait until the chip arrives. As soon as it does, I'm destroying my old board and mailing it back to Microstar in a hundred peices.

 

[pspada]

Don't smash that motherboard, send it to me. I want to pee on it first.