[Cialug] My CPU

[Brandon Griffis]

The pentium 4 is an exceptionally difficult chip as it's been around in
different iterations since 2000 and has covered 3 different motherboard
socket types.

423
478
775

Four different cores:

Willamette
Northwood
Prescott
Cedar Mill

And has been branded:

Pentium 4
Pentium 4 M (Mobile)
Pentium 4 HT (Hyper Threading)
Pentium 4 EE (Extreme Edition)
Pentium 4 D (Dual Core) -- this was before the core 2 duo
Pentium 4 D EE (Dual Core Extreme Edition)
(and probably more)

Given that you only call yours a Pentium 4 my best guess is that it's a
socket 478.  It could be a 423, but that's less likely (unless it's below
2Ghz, you don't mention).  It is not a 775.

The board is hard to say.  It *might* be a 775, but then it should also
support the core2 duo chips and you don't list that.  Otherwise it's a 478.
the 423 did not support the EE chips (to my recollection)

If both the board and the chip are 478, there's a good chance they should
work together (even being fairly different generations from the sound of
it).

Any other details you could provide would help narrow it down.

-Brandon

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
wrote:

> Frustrating isn't it?  Remember how long Socket A was in vogue?  Those
> were the days.
>
> -Nate
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> > [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:42 PM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: [Cialug] My CPU
> >
> > If I get a motherboard that says it supports "Pentium EE /
> > Pentium D / Pentium 4 HT / Celeron D", and my CPU says it's
> > "Pentium 4", then the two won't work together, correct?
> > Seems logical to me, but everytime I go through this bi- or
> > triennial cycle of computer building, I have to pick up on
> > the lingo all over again.
> >
> > -todd
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