Replace PIII Coppermine with P4 Costa Rica?

[bobby1234]

Hello everyone,

I have an old Dell PC with PIII Coppermine in it. I have a spare P4 1 GHz Costa Rica (I believe Williamette model). Can I swap the PIII for the P4? I know that PIII uses Socket 370 and P4 uses Socket 423/478. Is there an adapter I can use so that I can use the replace the P3 with the P4?

Regards,
Bobby Bowman

 

[bfdd]

If I remember correctly 1ghz P4's are atrociously slow and your P3 is probably faster if it's 700mhz+?

 

[bobby1234]

I have not seen the P4 perform yet. I just pulled out of a mobo being thrown away at the office. I was hoping that since it was bigger number it might be better But will it be technically possible for me to make this swap?

 

[Harvey]

Sorry, but the short answer is that, even if you could find an adapter, it wouldn't be worth the money or the time, and the resulting machine would still be too slow for anything more than DOS or Windows 95. It wouldn't support enough RAM or a big enough hard drive to do anything newer, and it may even require more power than an extremely old Dell machine can supply.

What you have is a good machine for single DOS machine control applications in commercial manufacturing. I recently needed some of those for a client, but when I can found this puppy for $70, I advised him to stop trying to reclaim old junk machines with questionable reliablity.

The whole thing, including case, PSU and the smallest stick of DDR2 RAM they had was under $100, and I was even able to get this board to boot to DOS from a USB flash drive so I built a system with no moving parts.

I hate to see otherwise working hardware go to waste, but sometimes, the floor space is worth more than the value of all them loose old parts.

 

[nonameo]

Get an adapter and go with a 1.4 tualatin. Probably as fast as a P4 1.8 or so

 

[bobby1234]

Thanks Harvey for the response and thanks to everyone else who responded. I guess I will keep this P4 as part of my ever-growing cpu collection I have almost 7 of them (I think).

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: bobby1234
Thanks Harvey for the response and thanks to everyone else who responded. I guess I will keep this P4 as part of my ever-growing cpu collection I have almost 7 of them (I think).

Get the specs on each of them. You can find them by searching for the number codes on Intel. Then, head for Ebay and collect enough cash to buy something newer. I'm amazed at how cheap you can build a really decent machine with an Athlon X2 or a Core Duo.

 

[bryanW1995]

I thought that p4 started at 1.4

 

[exar333]

I ran WinXP on a PIII 500 back in the day with 512MB RAM and it was just fine. This machine couldnt handle a lot of other programs in the background, but it would be a fine web browser and/or Office machine.

 

[RamIt]

Originally posted by: ExarKun333
I ran WinXP on a PIII 500 back in the day with 512MB RAM and it was just fine. This machine couldnt handle a lot of other programs in the background, but it would be a fine web browser and/or Office machine.

I currently use an old dell laptop that has a 366 celeron and 256mb of ram on XP. Runs fine for web browsing and office apps.