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Do Socket-423 to Socket-478 adaptors really work?

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Krk3561

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I saw in the news section last week there was an adapter that claims it will let you run a Northwood in a Socket-423 motherboard. Don't Williamettes take higher voltage than the Northwoods? Will it really work? Here's a link to it: PowerLeap PL-P4/N.
 
yeah, it will work. Also, Powerleap has very good customer service. If you want to return it, they will won't ask questions. POwerleap is very experienced with socket/slocket coverters.
 
Originally posted by: Krk3561
How does the adapter lessen the voltage?
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PowerLeap reverse engineers a lot of things to make these slockets work. I had no trouble with my PL-iPT3 to adapt the Tualatin CPU to my BX board. There is a 30-day money back guarantee with their products and their Customer Service is first-rate.

 
The ones at Compgeeks don't support Northwoods or the socket 478 Celerons. Its also not compatible with Intel D850GB series mobos whereas the Powerleap works with Willamette, Northwood and the P4 based Celerons (also works with the Intel mobos).
 
I don't think its merely a BIOS issue. Powerleap adapters work without BIOS upgrades ( they work on the same boards that wasn't compatible with the Compgeeks adapter). I suspect theres more underlying problems with the actual hardware itself.
And on your thread where it was linked ($12 adapter from Yahoo), the picture was clearly the Powerleap adapter ( even has the name 'Powerleap' on it). So either they are selling blackmarket adapters straight from the OEM who makes it or they just used the same picture pulled from the Powerleap site. Its the exact same picture, only made smaller.

from Compgeeks:

Only for use with non-northwood core Socket 478 CPU's.
Will not work with Socket 478 Celeron CPU's

And from Powerleap:

Supports Pentium-4 Northwood, Willamette, and P4 Celeron processors

So which one would you rather have? One is $10 (very limited compatibility), the other is $50 (more compatibility with a wider range of CPU's)
 
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