How to determine if i have a intel 850 or 850E motherboard?

[Case00]

I have tried to use different progs like WPUid etc but they all say 850/850E. Must i physically look at the motherboarD? I cant see much in the BIOS since its a Dell Dimension 8200 with f****d up BIOS.

The thing is why i want to know this is because im thinking on upgrading my processor(1.9 ghz 256k)to a faster processor and want to know if it can handle the 533 buss speed.

Sincerely

 

[AndyHui]

If you have a 1.9GHz Willamette Pentium 4 with 256KB of L2 cache, then you will have a straight i850 chipset based motherboard.

 

[Athlon4all]

AndyHui is prolly rght, when did you purchase this machine? Before May 2002?

 

[Case00]

My date of delivery was 18/4/2002. If i have a "straight" i850 can it handle 533 bus speed or is it 400 mhz only? Is there much difference(in games etc) between P4 with 256k L2 cache and the 512k L2 version?

 

[AndyHui]

Since your motherboard is probably an OEM Intel D850GB, then no, it will not handle a 533MHz FSB processor, simply because there are no available settings for it on your motherboard.

As for the difference between the Willamette and Northwood Pentium 4s, at the same clock speed the Northwood has about 10% better performance.

 

[mechBgon]

On the bright side, at least you don't have an SDR SDRAM-based P4 system, which would be keeping your P4 from performing at its best. If your Dell isn't performing the way you want despite having enough memory in there for your purposes, you might want to sell it and build your own P4 system after the prices drop. Won't be long now, XBit is reporting Sept. 1: article

 

[Case00]

Thanks alot mates for the good answers!

Sincerely