P4-M in a desktop?

protege5demon

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So my laptop has died off this last week (video and memory problems) and I was wondering whether I can use the 1.8ghz P4-M chip to build up a media pc. I'm specifically looking at this board:

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=683
It mentions compatibility with the 400mhz fsb Northwood P4's down to 2.0ghz. Doesn't mention anything specifically about P4-M cpus though.

Any suggestions as to whether or not this will work? The CPU is the 1.8ghz SL6FH and is a socket 478 (not the P-M socket 479).
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL6FH
 

f4phantom2500

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My laptop used a desktop p4, 2.4ghz 533 fsb, and i replaced it with a p4-m 2ghz. It always runs it at 1.2ghz regardless, so I think what happens is that it runs it using the battery mode multi, and i'm pretty sure it'd do the same thing for a desktop. When I was doing research on it I'm pretty sure I read that around the internet too.