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I will be upgrading my motherboard, and I want to make sure that I get the right board to support the Pentium 4 2.8ghz chip that I already have. How can I find out what type of socket this chip is? It is one of the smaller Pentium chips, not the large square chips, but its quite small, and about 2 years old.
Is there a utility or some sort of a visual diagram that I can use as reference to be sure I'm getting the right mobo to support the chip?
Thanks
Is there a utility or some sort of a visual diagram that I can use as reference to be sure I'm getting the right mobo to support the chip?
Thanks
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... I doubt you'll have any further questions (Everest shows a LOT of data about the chip -- not only the socket type, but which process it used, the stepping, etc.), but if you do just post the info Everest shows and ask away :-) :-)
wow...that was the fastest accept ever.
I think this is where i found out about everest thankyou gary that is the coolest program ever its too bad i couldn't find the free version on their site. and thank you for the new place to download it.
Everest is a nice utility. Let's you determine a lot about a system very easily => for example in this case either your suggestion or irwinpk's suggestion require removing the heatsink to get physical access to the chip; whereas Everest doesn't even require opening the case :-)
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I know, i've been looking for an app like this for ages.......Thanks again guys!
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Thanks again