Got the Socket 423 blues?

[Daovonnaex]

I did. As you know, I previously had a high performance TH7II system that was destroyed by coffee. I was forced back to a 1.4GHz P4 Willamette system. A forum friend (either Adul or FishTankX) told me about a slotket for 423->478. Powerleap is the manufacturer. I purchased it a few days ago, and now that it is installed, I see that it is a resounding success. I'm running a P4 2.4A on my Intel D850GB mainboard successfully. The kit also includes an HSF (allegedly the stock P4 HSF doesn't fit with the slotket) and Arctic Silver Alumina. My only complaint is that the HSF fan is a bit noisy, but I plan to buy another fan to address that soon.

http://www.powerleap.com/Products/P4N.htm

 

[FishTankX]

Awesome.

I believe it was me, might have been adul, or hell, might have been both. But I salute to powerleap. They have managed to clean up a messy situation with old boards stuck with lousy CPU's. I followed powerleap ever since they came out with the sollution, because I knew it'd be a God send to those who were stuck on those ancient P4/S423 combos who insisted on Intel's stability track record and settled for mediocre performance, expecting an upgrade soon. (which never really did come.. ) The amazing thing is that the now ancient i850 chipset has yet to falter when it comes down to high performance Pentium4 action. While the i850 is now defeated by DDR33 CAS2.0 and the newest chipsets, i'm constantly amazed at how 2+ year old technology (First released with the P3 733 and the PS2) can still keep up with the competition. PC800 is still kicking while PC133 is essentially, dead as a dodo.

The real trick is voltage regulation and making the CPU's ID string invisible to the motherboard. I don't know how they managed to fool the motherboard. What does the motherboard identiy the CPU as, Daovonnaex?

Ah, anyways, welcome back to the forums. That was a *mighty* long haitus, I would say.

Today's food for thought:Why the hell didn't AMD ever design a Dual PC133 system, for use with the Athlon classic, for the server/workstation market? PC133 signaling is like, a piece of cake. And the added bandwidth would have let them kick the P3's ass, royally. The Athlon would have ate the P3, and maybe even the coppermine, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a midnight snack.